PSU plans to double mobile users by '08

NEW DELHI: MTNL, which operates in Delhi and Mumbai, said it plans to more than double its mobile subscriber base to five million by March 2008 and is expanding capacity for the same.

At present state-run MTNL has 2.4 million mobile subscribers in both the metros and has created capacity for two million mobile connections in Mumbai and Delhi by 2007-08, MTNL CMD R S P Sinha said.

MTNL’s sister concern BSNL plans to add 3 million mobile subscribers monthly over the next three years to reach a mobile subscriber base of 108 million. BSNL currently has a mobile subscriber base of 24 million.