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Mobile phone users soar 87% y-o-y in June

The number of India's cellular phone subscribers grew 86.9 per cent year-on-year to 4.078 million at the end of June, the Cellular Operators' Association of India said on Friday.

A total of 206,448 new mobile phone subscribers were added in June. That was 46.8 per cent more than the number of new subscribers who were added in June last year, the data showed.

The COAI said the telecom markets with the lowest subscriber potential -- classified as "C" circles -- grew the fastest but this was on a much lower subscriber base.

India's Department of Telecommunications divides the country's telecom market into "metro" and "A", "B" and "C" telecom circles, based on subscriber potential.

According to the COAI data, the subscriber base in "C" circles ballooned by nearly 147 per cent, while in the lucrative "metro" market the subscriber base grew 78.5 per cent.

The subscriber base in "A" circles grew 105.1 per cent while the "B" circle grew 73.2 per cent.

At the end of June this year, the metro circles had 1.568 million subscribers, "A" circles 1.369 million, "B" circles 1.008 million and "C" circles 134,009 subscribers, the data showed.

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