Indian Telecom Market - Facts

Indian has been logically divided into 22 telecom circles / service areas. These 22 circles categories into 4 categories based upon teledensity and revenue potential. Category 1 includes metros (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata). Category 2 known as A category and its include Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh (including Telengana), Karnataka, and Tamilnadu (including Chennai). Third category known as B category and its include Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (W), Uttar Pradesh (E), Haryana, Punjab, Kerala and West Bengal. Forth category known as C category and its include Jammu Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, North East States.

Facts:

• Second largest telecom subscribers in the world i.e. 971 million.
• Annual subscribers growth rate is 6.09%
• Urban Subscribers 572.29 Million
• Rural Subscribers 398.68 Million
• Market share of Private Operators 89.16%
• Market share of PSU Operators 10.84%
• Teledensity 77.58

• 3G and 4G services active subscribers base is ~75 million.
• Mobile data traffic growth rate is 74% in year 2014.
• Data Usage per subscriber per month is 89.43 MB
• 3G growth rate is 114%, due to competitive pricing, superior network experience and affordable smartphones.
• LTE services are in early phase of deployment and suppose to grow rapidly in 2015.

• Highest subscriber growth was in Jammu & Kashmir i.e. 5.58% between Sept2014 and Dec2014
• Highest Negative subscriber growth was in Mumbai i.e. -1.55% between Sept2014 and Dec2014
• J&K Circle has recorded the highest growth rate of 5.58% followed by North East (5.12%). Kerala, Mumbai, Rajasthan and Kolkata Circles recorded decline in subscriber base between Sept 2014 and Dec 2014

• Delhi Service area has highest teledensity i.e. 235.57
• Himachal Pradesh has the highest Rural Tele-density of 82.14, followed by Tamil Nadu (80.08).
• Bihar continues to have the lowest Rural Tele-density of 30.43, followed by Madhya Pradesh (34.77).
• Highest market share is with Bharti Airtel i.e. 22.72%, followed by Vodafone i.e. 18.41% and Idea with 15.50%
• RCom on 4^th place with 11.07% and BSNL on 5^th place with 10.13%