India adds 1.11 million CDMA mobile users in February

New Delhi: India's CDMA carriers, led by Reliance Infocomm Ltd., added 1.11 million new wireless users in February in the the world's fastest growing mobile market, an industry body said.

Last month's addition takes the overall CDMA mobile user base to 19 million, the Association of Unified Telecom Services Providers, representing four carriers, said in a statement.

That takes the total mobile user base in Asia's third largest economy to 82.21 million - more than the entire population of Germany. The remaining customers use services based on the more common GSM technology.

Nine GSM carriers are yet to report for February.

The CDMA association said top-ranked operator Reliance Infocomm added almost 804,000 mobile users, boosting its customer base to 14.6 million.

Reliance Infocomm's parent firm, Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd., is due to be listed on stock exchanges on Monday.

Second-ranked Tata Teleservices Ltd. added 313,192 mobile customers, raising its user base to 4.4 million.

Local mobile call tariffs as low as 2 U.S. cents a minute are driving increased cellular usage as intense competition and expansion of networks in untapped rural areas fuel demand.

Less than 8 percent of the billion-plus population use wireless facilities.

Both Reliance and Tata compete mainly with GSM carriers Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd., state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. and Hutchison Essar Telecom Ltd., the Indian wireless operation of Hong Kong's Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd.
 
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vengabeats said:
New Delhi: India's CDMA carriers, led by Reliance Infocomm Ltd., added 1.11 million new wireless users in February in the the world's fastest growing mobile market, an industry body said.

Last month's addition takes the overall CDMA mobile user base to 19 million, the Association of Unified Telecom Services Providers, representing four carriers, said in a statement.

That takes the total mobile user base in Asia's third largest economy to 82.21 million - more than the entire population of Germany. The remaining customers use services based on the more common GSM technology.

Nine GSM carriers are yet to report for February.

The CDMA association said top-ranked operator Reliance Infocomm added almost 804,000 mobile users, boosting its customer base to 14.6 million.

Reliance Infocomm's parent firm, Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd., is due to be listed on stock exchanges on Monday.

Second-ranked Tata Teleservices Ltd. added 313,192 mobile customers, raising its user base to 4.4 million.

Local mobile call tariffs as low as 2 U.S. cents a minute are driving increased cellular usage as intense competition and expansion of networks in untapped rural areas fuel demand.

Less than 8 percent of the billion-plus population use wireless facilities.

Both Reliance and Tata compete mainly with GSM carriers Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd., state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. and Hutchison Essar Telecom Ltd., the Indian wireless operation of Hong Kong's Hutchison .
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Thanks Vengabeats

I would like to add some more Interesting topics on CDMA technology.As u all well Known that there is so such SIM in CDMA phones so u cannot change your Handset and cant implement a new no on same phone.Earlier these were all some sort of Impossible thing for CDMA networks.But year 2005 RELIANCE INFOCOMM TAC TEAM came up with flying colours added some handset changing with same mobile no.The technology named as GSK(get start kit).Since CDMA networks was deployed in USA they got embarresed when they came to know abt Reliance GSK.

Reliance has a solid centralised centre named DAKC(Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City) its arouned in 160 acers approx.They have world class training centre at DAKC campus.Add to this they had a good TAC team govern by SH Rajiv Khosla sea of Knowledge he was an ITS officer also worked for Motorolla USA earlier to Reliance.

Reliance keeps on Enhancing their networks,quality of service.
 
Thanks Vengabeats

I would like to add some more Interesting topics on CDMA technology.As u all well Known that there is so such SIM in CDMA phones so u cannot change your Handset and cant implement a new no on same phone.Earlier these were all some sort of Impossible thing for CDMA networks.But year 2005 RELIANCE INFOCOMM TAC TEAM came up with flying colours added some handset changing with same mobile no.The technology named as GSK(get start kit).Since CDMA networks was deployed in USA they got embarresed when they came to know abt Reliance GSK.

Reliance has a solid centralised centre named DAKC(Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City) its arouned in 160 acers approx.They have world class training centre at DAKC campus.Add to this they had a good TAC team govern by SH Rajiv Khosla sea of Knowledge he was an ITS officer also worked for Motorolla USA earlier to Reliance.

Reliance keeps on Enhancing their networks,quality of service.
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Sunil Aaaa Laaa Reee ;)

gr8 info .. m impressed wid reliance .. i thought after dhirubhai.. these 2 kids gona mess it up completely :|
 
Well.... since i'm an electronics engineer... i have studied the architectural difference between the the CDMA and the GSM tech... and the truth is CDMA offers many more benefits than the conventional GSM tech... when compared to the ease of communication, signal to noise ratio, the coverage, etc. In fact, CDMA is able to accomodate the subscribers in a better way, offering better facilities, as compared to GSM.

I think with this rate... CDMA operators (Tata & Reliance) would be able to cover more subscriber base than others...
 
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