September turned out to be good month for Indian mobile service providers at least in terms of subscriber base as they collectively clocked 14.98 million new subscribers.

The highest additions were witnessed in Tamil Nadu at 1.6 million. Company-wise, Tata Teleservices emerged as the one with the highest additions at more than 4 million. In fact it was because of TTSL’s surged growth that the overall wireless subscriber base could shoot up for the month.

India’s total subscriber base for wireless services touched 47.17 million.

For wireline services, the decline in subscriber base was by 19,648. The subscriber base was 37.03 million at the end of September 30, 2009.

Overall India’s subscriber base for telecom services including wireline as well as wireless services scaled past the 500 million mark.