| India has got around 11 mobile service providers | | | | market share is around 24% for vodafone and it |
| including both the GSM (Global System for Mobile) | | | | operates in 33 circles in India. It provides only |
| and CDMA (Code division Multiple access) service. | | | | GSM mobile service in India. |
| Among this 11, there are 8 GSM service providers | | | | 5) Tata Teleservices -Its a part of one of the |
| and 3 CDMA service providers. | | | | world's largest conglomerate Tata Group under |
| 1) BSNL/MTNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited/ | | | | Chairman Rata Tata. It markets under 3 different |
| Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Limited)- It is the | | | | brands, Tata Indicom, Virgin Mobile and recently it |
| largest telecom company in India with 24% | | | | started the brand Tata Docomo which is a |
| market share and currently the customer base is | | | | venture between Japanese mobile giant NTT |
| around 90 million. This customer base includes | | | | docomo and Tata Teleservice. Tata Indicom is a |
| fixed line phones, mobiles and DSL lines. Its an | | | | CDMA provider, it provides cellular, Mobile |
| government company with market value of | | | | broadband, fixed line services. Virgin is a CDMA |
| around 100 Billion. | | | | player which provides cellular as well as wireless |
| 2) Airtel - Bharti Enterprises - Its world's third | | | | internet. Tata Docomo is a GSM player which |
| largest single country mobile operator with around | | | | provides only mobile service. |
| 110 million subscribers, the chairman of the | | | | 6) Idea Cellular - Currently the Aditya Birla group |
| company is Sunil Mittal. Airtel provides fixed and | | | | holds about 49% share of Idea cellular. It has a |
| mobile teleservices and it has recently launched | | | | market share of about 15% in India with around |
| Digital Television DTH service and broadband | | | | 48 million subscribers. It provides GSM mobile |
| service also. Airtel has around 24% market share | | | | service and wireless Internet for laptops. |
| in India. | | | | 7) Aircel - It is India's 5th largest GSM service |
| 3) Reliance Communications - This was formerly | | | | provider with subscriber base of about 27 million. |
| known as reliance Infocom. Its a private company | | | | Its a joint venture between Maxis Communication, |
| in which Anil Dhirubahi Ambani holds around 67% | | | | Malaysia and Apollo Hospital Group, India. It has a |
| share. It has 17% market share in India. Reliance | | | | market share of about 13% in India. Currently it |
| had initially started with the CDMA service but | | | | provides only GSM mobile service. |
| now has extended it to GSM also. It also provides | | | | 8) Uninor - It is the 8th GSM service that started |
| service like Mobile broadband services, mobile | | | | its operation in India. Its a merger between |
| service, fixed line service, Internet service. | | | | Unitech India and Telenor, Norway. |
| 4) Vodafone Essar - Initially this was marketed | | | | 9) MTS - Its a CDMA/GSM player which is a |
| under brand Hutchisson Essar, but vodafone took | | | | merger between Shyam group, India and Sistema |
| over and now it is known as Vodafone Essar. The | | | | group, Russia. |