India's total telephony base grew to 922.04 million in January, up by 6.85 net adds. The country's fixed-line base slipped by 170,000 to 28.72 million, but the mobile base went up by 7.02 million new customers to 893.31 million. Figures from regulator Trai also show that mobile number portability requests in the month stood at 2.56 million. There were also 56.90 million broadband subscribers in January, up from 55.20 million a month earlier. This included 14.55 million fixed-line broadband subscribers, versus 14.54 million in December, and 42.35 million mobile and wireless broadband subscribers, up from 40.66 million a month earlier.
