TRAI report says Indian telecom operators – such as Bharti Airtel, BSNL, Reliance Communications, etc – reported 9.04 percent year-on-year growth in gross revenue (GR) to Rs 57,261 crore and 8.85 percent increase in adjusted gross revenue (AGR) to Rs 38,640 crore in June 2013 quarter.
The quarter-on-quarter growth in GR was 5.48 percent and 9.53 percent in AGR, TRAI said on Tuesday.
TRAI said pass-through charges accounted for 32.52 percent of the GR for the quarter ending June 2013. The quarterly and the year-on-year growth rates of license fee are 8.09 percent and 5.14 percent, respectively for the quarter.
Access services contributed 78.91 percent of the total adjusted gross revenue of telecom services. In access services, gross revenue, adjusted gross revenue, license fee and spectrum charges increased by 5.75 percent, 9.68 percent, 4.39 percent and 9.86 percent respectively, whereas pass through decreased by 2.62 percent.
Monthly Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) for GSM service increased by 6.14 percent, from Rs 105 in March 2013 to Rs 111 in June 2013, with y-o-y increase of 16.73 percent. Monthly ARPU for CDMA service increased by 3.26 percent, from Rs 95 in March 2013 to Rs 98 in June 2013. ARPU for CDMA has increased by 31.28 percent on y-o-y basis.
TRAI said the overall MOU per subscriber per month for GSM service increased by 1.38 percent from 383 in March 2013 to 388 in June 2013. Prepaid MOU per subscriber increased from 361 to 364 and postpaid MOUs increased from 946 to 990 in this quarter.
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 898.02 million in March 2013 to 903.09 million in June 2013, registering a growth of 0.56 percent over the previous quarter. This reflects year-on-year (Y-O-Y) negative growth of 6.47 percent over the same quarter of last year.
Subscription in Urban Areas decreased from 548.80 million in March 2013 to 545.48 million in June 2013, and Urban Teledensity also declined from 146.96 to 145.35. Whereas, Rural subscription increased from 349.22 million to 357.61 million. Share of subscription in Rural areas out of total subscription increased from 38.89 percent at the end of Mar-13 to 39.60 percent at the end of Jun-13.
