The mobile subscriber base in India fell from 904.23 million in October 2012 to 890.60 million at the end of November 2012, registering a decline 1.51%, according to latest figures released by TRAI.

The regulator said that the decline is due to large scale disconnections by some of the service providers. The share of urban wireless subscribers has decreased from 62.68 % to 62.19% where as share of rural wireless subscribers has increased from 37.32% to 37.81%. The overall wireless Teledensity in India has reached 73.02.

Mobile subscription in urban areas decreased from 566.81 million in October 2012 to 553.91 million at the end of November 2012. The wireless subscription in rural areas decreased from 337.42 million to 336.70 million during the same period. The urban wireless Teledensity has decreased from 153.06 to 149.32 and rural Teledensity has decreased from 39.78 to 39.67.

The number of telephone subscribers in India decreased to 921.47 million at the end of November, 2012 from 935.18 million at the end of October 2012, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of -1.47%. The share of urban subscribers has declined to 62.70% from 63.17% whereas share of rural subscribers has increased to 37.30% in the month of November 2012.
 
While Tata Teleservices lost 4.23 million users, Bharti Airtel’s subscribers base fell by 2.80 million. Airtel now has subscribers base of 183.61 million users.

At the end of November 2012 Vodafone lost 2.38 million users to take its subscriber base to 150.76. Idea Cellular and Aircel lost 1.56 million users and 1.46 million respectively.

The subscribers base of Uninor decreased by 4,37,915 which now has a user base of 40.60 million.

State-run BSNL and MTNL lost 81,021 and 1,813 users and their subscriber base now stands at 99.90 million and 5.30 million respectively.