The Telecom regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday said that Monthly Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) for GSM service declined by 0.45%, from `95.47 in QE Jun-12 to `95.05 in QE Sep-12, with Y-O-Y decrease of 2.15%.

According to latest data released by the regulator on an all India average, the overall MOU per subscriber per month for GSM service decreased by 1% from 346 in QE Jun-12 to 342 in QE Sep-12. Prepaid MOU per subscriber decreased by 1.27% (from 325 to 321) and the postpaid MOUs decreased by 0.72% (from 967 to 960).

Monthly ARPU for CDMA, full mobility service increased by 3.80%, from `74.91 in QE Jun-12 to `77.76 in QE Sep-12. ARPU for CDMA has increased by 10.20% on Y-O-Y basis.

The total MOU for CDMA per subscriber per month declined by 1.49%, from 228.63 in QE Jun-12 to 225.22 QE Sep-12. The Outgoing MOUs (114) declined by 1.25% and Incoming MOUs (112) decreased by 1.73%.

 Gross Revenue (GR) and Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) of Telecom Service Sector for the QE Sep-12 has been `52937.32 Crore and `35473.16 Crore respectively. There has been an increase of 0.81% in GR and a decrease of 0.07% in AGR as compared to previous quarter. The year-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth in GR and AGR over the same quarter in last year has been 6.00% and 6.01% respectively. Pass-through charges accounted for 32.99% of the GR for the quarter ending Sep-12. The quarterly and the year-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth rates of pass-through charges for QE Sep-12 are 2.65% and 5.96% respectively.

Average license fee as percentage of AGR is 8.13% in QE Sep-12. The quarterly and the year-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth rates of the average license fee for QE Sep-12 are -1.93% and 3.91% respectively.

Access services contributed 74.92% of the total revenue of telecom services. In Access services Gross Revenue, AGR, License Fee & Spectrum Charges decreased by 0.62%, 1.60%, 6.36% & 0.41% respectively in the quarter ending Sep-12 vis-à-vis previous quarter.

 Monthly Average Revenue per User (ARPU) for Access Services based on AGR increased from ` 98 in QE Jun-12 to ` 99 in QE Sep-12.