According to a report appeared in The Times of India, The numbers are dying down in the post paid subscribers’ front. The report says that in India, 99% of the new phone connections in the mobile market are covered by pre-paid customers. India has all but completely rejected the post-paid option, with nearly 99% of new mobile user additions in the country accounting for by pre-paid connections.

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile company by user base, added a record 8.1 million-plus new customers during the October-December 2008 quarter, of which 99.6% were pre-paid users. Same as Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar and Tata Teleservices. About 99.9% of RCOM’s 5.5 million new additions in the quarter went in for a pre-paid connection, while for Vodafone Essar and Tata Teleservices, the numbers were 97.3% and 96%, respectively.