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According to the COAI figures for December 2008, GSM subscribers (excluding Reliance Telecom subscribers) grew by 8.1 million in December 2008. At least there’s something that continues to rise in this recession.
This brings the total GSM subscriber base to 257.85 million, up from 249.35 million in November 2008, or in other words, a growth of about 3.25 per cent in December.
Bharti added 2.73 million taking its total subscriber base to 85.65 million  which represents a market share of 33.22%
Vodafone-Essar added about 2.17 million to take its total subscriber base to 61 million, or 23.57% market share.
Idea Cellular increased its subscribers by 1.5 to take the total to 38 million.
BSNL and MTNL, on the other hand, continued to lose market share.

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