Five million GSM users added in Oct

New Delhi, Nov 9 (UNI) About five million GSM subscribers were added in the month of October as against an addition of 4.4 million users a month earlier, Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI) announced today.

With this, the GSM subscriber base in the country has touched the 96-million mark at the end of October as compared to 91 million the previous month.

The month also saw the mobile industry achieve another milestone as the total mobile subscriber base in Delhi (both GSM as well as CDMA) went over 10-million mark.

''The GSM industry and COAI are delighted at the continued upswing in the subscriber additions,'' said COAI Director General T V Ramachandran.

He said this growth is strong evidence of the fact that GSM continues to be the predominant technology choice of the masses.

Among all circles, Category B circles witnessed the highest rate of growth at 6.3 per cent followed by Category C circles at 6.2 per cent.

Within the Category B circles, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana recorded the highest growth at 9.2 per cent and 8.8 per cent respectively.

Within the Category C circles, the highest growth was recorded by the North East (9.4 per cent) followed by Jammu and Kashmir (8.7 per cent).

Category A circles also witnessed a healthy growth of 5.4 per cent in October 2006. Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest growth of 6.9 per cent followed by Maharashtra at 6.2 per cent.

The subscribers in metros grew by 2.9 per cent over the previous month with Kolkata recording the highest figure of 2.9 per cent growth followed by Delhi at 2.8 per cent.

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