India
As of July 2012, India has 919.17 million subscribers in total or 76% penetration rate.
The country's telcom regulator is the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
| Rank | Operator | Technology | Subscribers |
Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bharti Airtel | GSM-900/1800 (EDGE) HSPA 2300 MHz TD-LTE |
188.80 (July 2012) | Bharti Enterprises (64.76%) SingTel (32%) |
| 2 | Vodafone India | GSM-900/1800 (EDGE) 2100 MHz HSPA EVDO (Using MTS' network) |
154.91 (July 2012) | Vodafone (100%) |
| 3 | Reliance Communications | CdmaOne, CDMA 1xRTT DCN, EVDO GSM-900/1800 HSPA WiMAX |
135.37 (July 2012) | Reliance (67%) & Public (26%) |
| 4 | Idea Cellular | GSM-900/1800 (EDGE) HSPA |
117.62 (July 2012) | Aditya Birla Group Axiata Group Berhad (19.1%) |
| 5 | BSNL | GSM-900/1800 (EDGE) 2100 MHz UMTS, HSDPA CdmaOne, EVDO WiMAX WiFi |
94.67 (July 2012) | State-owned (100%) |
| 6 | TATA DOCOMO | GSM-1800 HSPA CDMA, EVDO WiMAX |
79.27 (July 2012) | Tata Group (74%) NTT docomo JAPAN (26%) |
| 7 | Aircel | GSM-900/1800 (EDGE) HSPA |
65.15 (July 2012) | Maxis Communications (74%) Apollo Hospital (26%) |
| 8 | Uninor | GSM, EDGE | 44.49 (July 2012) | Telenor (67.25%) Unitech Group (32.75%) |
| 9 | MTS India | CDMA, EVDO | 16.76 (July 2012) | Sistema (73.71%) & Shyam Group (23.79%) |
| 10 | Videocon | GSM (GPRS, EDGE) | 5.16 (July 2012) | Videocon |
| 11 | MTNL | GSM HSDPA CDMAone |
5.22 (July 2012) | State-owned |
| 12 | Loop Mobile India | GSM, GPRS | 2.99 (July 2012) | Essar Group (8.0%) Santa Trading Pvt Ltd (85.75%) |
| 1 | RIL INFOTEL | 2300 MHz TD-LTE | 0.001 (July 2012) | RELIANCE (95%) HFCL INFOTEL (5%) |
| 13 | Ping Mobile | CDMA GSM via brand sharing |
1.72 (July 2012) | HFCL Infotel Limited |
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