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Idea reaches 1 million 3G users in the first month

on April 29, 2011 – 10:00 am3 Comments


Idea Cellular that launched 3G services in India at the end of last month reaches 1 million 3G subscribers in 1 month. They launched their 3G services in Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh last month, later it was launched in UP East, UP West, Maharashtra & Goa and recently launched their 3G services in Kerala.

They are mainly focusing on industrial, agricultural and educational regions where there is no broadband penetration. Their stats show that, 20% of overall mobile data users use 3G data and they expect it to increase in coming months.

Idea 3G is now available in 9 cities and 400 towns across the country. They plan to extend their 3G services to 750 towns by mid 2011 and 4,000 towns by the end of 2011 by covering 10 new towns per day throughout the year by offering 3G services to 50% of the subscriber base.

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  • http://www.websitevaluefinder.com dharmendra

    1 million figure for 3g service means that india has really make progress in the technology field.

  • sujay

    idea ad campaign succedded better than other 3g service provider.
    Idea played it smart providing 3g services in non brodband areas and not only providing in major cities but also in small towns.

  • devendr singh bundela

    i use bsnl and docomo 3g but poor signal and bad custmer care service in bsnl we can not make call to cust.care and docomo they said you do not know diffrence in 2g and 3g.but idea is best in all field