Indian mobile telecoms firms added 9.06 million users in July. This includes the Wireline and Wireless base. The figure exceeds the June count of 8.81 million and therefore the total number of telephone connections reaches 334.84 million at the end of July  as per the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said on Monday.

Leading mobile firm Bharti Airtel signed up 2.7 million customers and stands  India's largest telecom firm by total subscribers, including fixed-line subscribers.

The total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & WLL(F)) base stood at 296.08 million at the end of July 2008.

 Total Broadband subscribers base has reached 4.57 million by the end of July 2008

as compared to 4.38 million by the end of June 2008

Second-ranked mobile firm Reliance Communications added 1.75 million customers, and No. 3 Vodafone Essar, controlled by Britain's Vodafone Plc added 1.76 million.

India is the world's fastest-growing market for wireless services and the second-largest market for such services after China, with growth fuelled by cheap handsets and call rates as low as 1 U.S. cent a minute.

Vinod Negi/ITvoir Network