
The Indian mobile communication industry is the world's fastest growing telecommunications industry. The number of Mobile subscribers in the country was approximately 5 million in 2001 which has increased by more than 100% to 670.60 Million in August 2010! long with state owned MTNL & BSNL, private operators like Bharti Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, Reliance Communications, Aircel, Docomo have strong subscriber base in India. New players like Virgin, Uninor, Videocon, Etisalat, S Tel, Sistema (MTS), Loop are entered into the market. So it is becoming increasingly difficult to track the mobile numbers since new series of mobile numbers are launched frequently.