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"India's mobile phone subscriber basedeclined by a net 25.88 million, or 2.9 percent, in December to864.72 million, the sixth straight monthly fall, due to aslowdown in gross additions and as carriers continued todisconnect inactive users in the world's second-biggest wirelessservices market.    By comparison, China, the world's biggest mobile phonemarket, posted a 0.8 percent monthly increase in the number ofmobile subscribers to 1.11 billion in December.        Below is a table of mobile phone subscriptions as ofDecember, based on data released on Thursday by India'stelecommunications regulator. (www.trai.gov.in)         LEADING COMPANIES:   NAME                  CHANGE (MLN)     TOTAL USERS (MLN)      ----------------------------------------------------------      Bharti Airtel     -1.70           181.91         Vodafone India      -3.29           147.48          Reliance Comm    -15.59           118.53   Idea Cellular     -0.20           113.95              Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd     0.01            99.92              Tata Teleservices           -2.96            69.56           Aircel                      -1.98            63.35              Unitech Wireless             0.92            41.52              Sistema Shyam TeleServices  -0.79            14.88      SMALLER PLAYERS:   NAME                      ADDITIONS     TOTAL USERS (MLN)   --------------------------------------------------------        MTNL               -2,975           5.30   Videocon Tele    -371,953           3.64         Loop                         -6,506           3.00     Quadrant (Formerly HFCL)     63,989           1.70   -------------------------------------------------------       NOTE:      * Active mobile subscriptions in December were 701.60million, or about 81 percent of the total connections.    * Mobile connections per 100 people, known as tele-density,was at 70.82 as of December. Mobile tele-density in urban areaswas 143.48, compared with 39.04 in rural areas.      * By end-December, 80.06 million mobile subscribers hadopted to change their service provider, since India allowedmobile number portability in January 2011.     * The number of broadband users rose to 14.98 million inDecember from 14.88 million in the previous month.     * The number of fixed-phone line subscribers fell to 30.79million in December from 30.87 million in the previous month.    * Including fixed-phone lines, India had 895.51 millionphone users at the end of December, or a total tele-density of73.34. (Compiled by Devidutta Tripathy)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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