INDIA WIRELESS STORY

2008WHAT NEXT? MORE PHONES THAN

PEOPLE?

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INDIA ADDS 15.41 MILLION MOBILE PHONES

IN JANUARY

India added a record

15.41 million

wireless subscribers

in January 2009,

according to data

released by telecom

regulator TRAI. The

total wireless

subscribers (GSM,

CDMA & WLL(F))

base stood at 362.30

million at the end of

January 2009 –

TRAI Data

AT THIS RATE, INDIA WILL SOON HAVE MORE

MOBILES THAN PEOPLE

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2008

2007

GSM OR CDMA – INDIA LOVES THEM ALL

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2007

WHERE’S THE WIRELINE? DWARFED BUT

CARRYING ON

Wireline

10%

Wireless

90%

NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH…GROWTH IS

EVERYWHERE

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Note: Not all states and union territories listed as data is based on license areas. For instance, Bihar

includes Jharkhand & Maharashtra includes Goa. We have also included data for Mumbai, Kolkata

and Chennai under their respective states.

NORTH LEADS, EAST GROWS FASTEST

North

41%

East

11%

West

20%

South

28%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

Growth 2008

THE POOR WANT A VOICE…BIMARUS*

ON TOP!

80%

60%

70%65%

55%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

Bihar Madhya

Pradesh

Orissa Rajasthan UP

Growth in 2008

*Bihar, MP, Rajasthan and MP are known as BIMARU ( Bimar in Hindi means Sick) because of their relative socio-

economic backwardness

MOBILES BRIDGING URBAN RURAL

DIGITAL DIVIDE

Urban

75%

Rural

25%

Urban

80%

Rural

20%

2008 2007

METRO MOBILE…DELHI’S IS KING,

KOLKATA FASTEST

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2008

2007

METRO VS NON-METRO: SMALL TOWNERS

ARE ASKING FOR MORE

Metro

16%

Non-

Metro

84%0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Metro Non-Metro

Growth in 2008

HELLO WORLD…THIS IS INDIA CALLING!

India

8%

Rest of the

World

92%

A GREAT STORY…BUT STILL A LONG WAY

TO GO

According to the latest ICT Development Index

released by International Telecom Union (ITU),

India has moved just one rank above from 117 in

2002 to 118 in 2007 despite tremendous growth

in mobile phone access in the country. ITU's ICT

Development Index compares developments in

information and communication technologies

(ICT) in 154 countries over a five-year period

from 2002 to 2007

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