India mobile users to treble by 2011: Bharti

Posted on | June 21, 2006 |

According to Sanjay Kapoor, Joint President, Mobility at Bharti the number of cellular subscribers in India will treble to 300 million in the next three to five years.

Bharti is confident of sustaining its addition rate of more than a million subscribers per month. Kapoor said Bharti’s net adds would continue to outpace overall new mobile user growth in the Indian market.

In the year ended March 2005, Bharti increased its net adds by 67 per cent, compared with the market’s growth of 55 per cent. In the year to March 2006, Bharti’s new subscriber growth was 78 percent, versus 73 per cent in the broader market.

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