News: India adds 6.3 mln new telephone users in February

(RTR 14/03/2007) Mumbai - Telecoms firms added 6.3 million new subscribers in February, taking the total user base above 203 million, a government statement said on Wednesday. Wireless service providers continued to dominate user growth by adding 6.23 million subscribers in February, while 67,000 new fixed-line users signed up, the statement said.

Call rates of as low as 2-3 U.S. cents a minute are luring customers in the world's fastest-growing wireless services market, where Britain's Vodafone recently paid more than $11 billion for a controlling stake in fourth-largest mobile operator Hutchison Essar.