The two Public Players, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), are providing mobile services in India. MTNL's Garuda, Trump and Dolphin and
BSNL's Cellone and Excel are running successfully on CDMA, WLL and GSM technologies.
Market shares of Public Players in Indian mobile telephony
Since, Private Players entered Indian Fixed Line Telephony, market shares of Public Players started declining. This can be easily seen by the trend of number of subscribers (increasing or decreasing) of Public Players. MTNL has showed a declining trend in the last three years. BSNL
is adding new customers but with a declining growth rate.
Subscriber trend of MTNL in mobile telephony
Subscriber trend of BSNL in mobile telephony
* Figures are based on TRAI reports and individual company's reports