India ended July with 858.37 million mobile subscribers, up by 0.78 percent from a month earlier, according to figures from telecommunications regulator Trai. Bharti Airtel led the market with 170.7 million subscribers as the company added 1.51 million new customers in the month. Airtel was followed by Reliance Communications with 144.78 million subscribers, up by 1.52 million new customers in the month, and Vodafone was the third largest operator in terms of subscribers with 143 million customers. Vodafone Essar gained 1.49 million new customers in July. Idea Cellular ended the month with 96.11 million subscribers as it signed-up 1 million new customers, BSNL added 1.4 million subscribers in the month to bring its total to 95.14 million. Tata Teleservices lost 2.6 million subscribers in the month to bring its total to 88.31 million, and Aircel/Dishnet added 608,597 new customers in July to bring its customer base to 58.5 million. Uninor had 27.38 million subscribers in total, after signing up 1.05 million new customers. MTS added 533,682 customers to bring its total to 12.25 million and Videocon ended the month with 7.03 million subscribers as it lost 95,010 subscribers. MTNL gained 25,578 subscribers in July to reach a total of 5.52 million, and S Tel had 3.5 million subscribers as it won 183,833 new customers in the month. Loop ended July with 3.16 million customers as it attracted 12,624 new subscribers and HFCL added 9458 subscribers to end the month with 1.41 million customers. Etisalat/Allianz added 66,019 million customers to bring its total to 1.42 million.
