It’s Indian carrier Bharti Airtel time: first the company yesterday announced that it has purchased 49% stake in Qualcomm India unit and today Reuters reports that Airtel added 2.01 million mobile users in the month of April, taking its total subscribers numbers to 183.3 million.
Vodafone’s Indian unit, which is the country’s No. 3 mobile operator by subscribers, signed up 0.82 million mobile users in April to have a total of 151.3 million, the Cellular Operators Association of India said on its website.
Fourth-ranked Idea Cellular added 1.49 million mobile customers in April to have a total of 114.2 million, while Telenor’s India unit boosted its subscriber base by 1.12 million to 43.6 million.
