Reliance Communications on Monday became the fifth mobile operator in Asia to cross 50 mn mobile subscribers mark. The company announced that it added 1.74 mn new mobile subscribers during the month of June 2008 which is the highest ever monthly subscriber addition to its user base.

RCom’s closest rival Bharti Airtel added the highest number of subscribers among all GSM operators in June 2008 at 2.55 mn subscribers making it a total user base of 69.3 mn.