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Telecommunications Statistics in India 

[edit]Introduction

India has the fastest growing telecom network in the world with its high population and development

potential. Airtel , Idea, Reliance, BSNL, Aircel,Tata Indicom, Vodafone, MTNL, and Loop Mobile are other

major operators in India. However, rural India still lacks strong infrastructure. India's public sector telecom

company BSNL is the 7th largest telecom company in world.

Telephony introduced in India in 1882. The total number of telephone subscribers in the country waThe

total number of telephones in the country stands at 885.99 million, while the overall tele-density has

increased to 73.97% as of June 30, 2011.[1][2]

 and the total numbers of mobile phone subscribers have

reached 851.70 million as of June 2011.[1]

 The mobile tele-density has increased to 71.11 % in June

2011.[1]

 In the wireless segment, 11.41 million subscribers were added in June 2011.[1]

 The wire line

segment subscriber base stood at 34.29 million <.[1]

 

Indian telecom operators added a staggering 227.27 million wireless subscribers in the 12 months

between Mar 2010 and Mar 2011

[1]

 averaging at 18.94 million subscribers every month. To put this intoperspective, China which currently possesses the world's largest telecommunications network added

119.2 million wireless subscribers during the same period (March 2010 - March 2011)[3][4]

 - averaging 9.93

million subscribers every month (a little over half the number India was adding every month). So, while

India might currently be second to China in the TOTAL number of mobile subscribers, India has been

adding nearly twice as many subscribers EVERY month. Mobile teledensity increased by almost 18.4

percentage points from Mar 2010 and Mar 2011 (49.60% to 67.98%) while wireline subcriber numbers fell

by a modest 2.2 million. This frenetic pace of monthly subscriber additions means that the Indian mobile

subscriber base has shown a year on year growth of 43.23%.[1][5]

 According to recent reports, India was

purported to overtake China to become the world's largest mobile telecommunications market by the year

2013. It was also predicted that by 2013, the teledensity will shoot up to 75% and the total mobile

subscriber base would be a colossal 1.159 billion.[6]

 

[edit]Telephone statistics

  Telephone Subscribers (Wireless and Landline): 885.99 million (June 2011) [8]

 

  Land Lines: 34.29 million (June 2011)[8]

 

  Cell phones: 851.70 million (June. 2011) [8]

 

  Monthly Cell phone Addition: 11.41 million (June 2011) [8]

 

  Teledensity: 73.97 % (June 2011) [8]

 

  Annual Cell phone Addition: 227.27 million (Mar 2010 - 2011)

  Projected Teledensity: 1.159 billion, 75% of population by 2013.[6]

 

since 2000. The number of mobile phone connections crossed fixed-line connections in Sept 2004

and currently there are an estimated 851.70 million mobile phone users in India [1]

 compared to 34.29

million fixed line subscribers.[1]

 India primarily follows the GSM mobile system, in the 900 MHz band.

Recent operators also operate in the 1800 MHz band. The dominant players are Aircel, Vodafone,

Airtel, Tata Indicom, Tata Teleservices, MTS, Uninor, Reliance Infocomm, Idea Cellular and

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BSNL/MTNL. There are many smaller players, with operations in only a few states. International

roaming agreements exist between most operators and many foreign carriers.

  Call Rates Cutting Blows: The rates of Communication in India were one of the highest in the world,

till a few years back. The rates could not be justified by the fact that rupee is cheaper. In fact the

Indian sub continent had shown a calm tolerance towards the high rate in even in telecom. The rateswere also justified as the government has to feel the high cost involved in the one-time developments

like satellite and telephone tower related charges. But now owing to better technologies the telecom

rates in India are on the verge of becoming cheaper. The time may not be far when India will have the

cheapest communication. One of the enabling technologies behind this is the brain child of an able

Indian engineer Sandipan Bhattacharjee. He co-worked with a famous MNC to redefine the way

telephones interact. A, computer engineer by profession, he extended wave-overlap theory to reach

this goal. The technology is now patented and details are not available. There is a conversion

process underway to make all numbers in India 10 digits long.

  Internet Users: Number of Internet users in India is the 3rd largest in the world next only to China

and the United States of America.[9] Though the number of internet users is high, internet penetration

is still much lower than most countries across the globe. It must also be noted that 40% of all internet

users in India are connected to the net only via their mobile phones.[9]

 

  Broadband Subscribers: Broadband in India is defined as 256kbit/s and above by the government

regulator. Total subscribers were 12.01 million (Apr 2011).[1]

 

Mobile phone companies of IndiaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Mobile phone industry in India) 

The Mobile phone industry in India is covered in this article. Mobile phones are usually called "mobile

phones" or "cell phones" in India.

  The first mobile phone was launched in India during 1990s.[citation needed ]

 

  The first mobile phone company was Nokia.[citation needed ]

 

  First Mobile service provider was Modi Groups in 1995 and started in Kolkata, somewhere it was signed

that mobile service provider was launched in 1994.[citation needed ]

 

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Mobile phone service operators

  Aircel 

Aircel, headquartered in New Delhi, India has absorbed Cingular Wireless, and offers 2G service using

GSM technology and 3G service using UMTS technology.

  Airtel 

Airtel, with its head offices in both Mumbai and Berhampur, India provides 2G service using GSM and

3G service using UMTS/HSPA technology

  BSNL 

BSNL, headquartered in New Delhi, is a public listed company and is state-owned. It offers 2G service

using GSM and 3G service using UMTS. It was the first service provider to introduce 3G services in

India.

  MTNL 

MTNL, headquartered in Mumbai is a public listed company and is state-owned and offers 2G service

using CDMA and 3G service using GSM.

  Idea Cellular 

Idea Cellular, headquartered in Mumbai, has absorbed Cingular Wireless, and offers 2G service using

GSM technology and 3G service using UMTS technology.

  Ping Mobile 

  Tata Indicom 

Tata Indicom, with its head offices in both Navi Mumbai provides 2G service using cdmaOne and 3G

service using CDMA2000 technology.

  Tata DoCoMo 

Tata DoCoMo is joint venture company of Tata Teleservices and NTT DoCoMo

  Reliance Communications 

Reliance Communications, with its head offices in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra provides CMDA 2G

service using cdmaOne and CDMA 3G service using CDMA2000 EVDO technology. It also provides

GSM 2G services & 3G GSM HSDPA Services.

  Loop Mobile India (Formerly BPL Mobile)

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Loop Mobile India, is a mobile phone service provider in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (formerly SWAN

Telecom)

In 2009 Etisalat has announced that its Indian unit, erstwhile Swan Telecom (owned by Dynamix

Balwas Realty and Reliance Communications),[34] headquartered in Mumbai, is renamed to Etisalat

DB Telecom India Pvt. Ltd Telecom Renamed Etisalat Telecom India Pvt. Ltd. The business unit has

been awarded Unified Services Access License in 15 circles - Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat,

Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (including

Chennai), Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. In April 2010

Etisalat began signal testing in Chennai [IND 922], Delhi & NCR [IND 913], Maharashtra & Goa [IND

919], Mumbai [IND 916] and Gujarat[IND 914]. In May 2010, Etisalat was in talks to buy 25% stake in

Reliance Communications, but the deal was not finalised.

  Virgin Mobile CDMA

  Vodafone Essar (Formerly Hutchison Essar / Hutch

Orange/Hutch Pink)

  Videocon Mobile Service (Formerly Datacom Solutions)

  Uninor 

  MTS India 

  S Tel 

  Virgin Mobile GSM

  Spice Telecom 

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These are the World's 30 Largest Mobile Network Operators by Number of Subscribers (and

by proportionate subscribers, if the company has holdings in other operators).

Rank Company Main Markets Technology

Proportio

subscrib

(in million

1 China Mobile  China[show]  GSM,[show] 627.63

[1] 

(August 2011

2 Vodafone  United Kingdom[show]  GSM,[show] 361.42

[3] 

(June 2011) 

3 Telefónica O2 Spain[show]  GSM,[show] 227.32

(June 2011)[5

4 América Móvil  Mexico[show]  GSM,[show] 236

(June 2011)[7

5 Airtel  India (Airtel)[show]  GSM,[show] 221.24

[9] 

(Jun 2011) 

6 Orange  France (Orange France)[show]  GSM,[show] 140

[11] 

(December 20

7 Telenor  Norway (Telenor Norway)[show]  GSM,[show] 

8 VimpelCom  Russia (Beeline Russia, GT)[show]  GSM,[show] 

9 SingTel  Singapore[show]  GSM,[show] 146.0

[16] 

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Rank Company Main Markets Technology

Proportio

subscrib

(in million

(Aug 2011) 

10 Axiata Group Berhad  Malaysia (Celcom)[show]  GSM,[show] 

11 China Unicom  China (China Unicom)  GSM,[show] 

13 /   TeliaSonera  Sweden[show]  GSM,[show] 

14 Saudi Telecom Company (STC) Saudi Arabia[show]  GSM,[show] > 100

[22] 

(March 2010)

15 MTN Group  South Africa[show]  GSM,[show] 

16 Etisalat  United Arab Emirates[show]  GSM,[show] 

17 Reliance Communications  India[show]  CDMA,[show] 

12 T-Mobile  Germany (Telekom.de)[show]  GSM,[show] 

18 Verizon Wireless  USA CDMA,[show] 

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Rank Company Main Markets Technology

Proportio

subscrib

(in million

19 MTS  Russia (MTS Russia)[show]  GSM,[show] 

20 AT&T Mobility  USA[show]  GSM,[show] 

21 China Telecom  China CDMA,[show] 

22 Telkomsel  Indonesia (Telkomsel)  GSM,[show] 

23 BSNL  India GSM,[show] 

24 Tata Teleservices  India GSM,[show] 

25 Idea Cellular  India GSM,[show] 

26 Telecom Italia  /  TIM  Italy (TIM)[show]  GSM,[show] 

27 Maxis Communications  Malaysia (Maxis)(75%)[show]  GSM,[show] 

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Rank Company Main Markets Technology

Proportio

subscrib

(in million

28 Turkcell  Turkey (Turkcell)[show]  GSM,[show] 

29 Qtel  Qatar[show]  GSM,[show] 33.60

[36] 

(December 20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators 

List of countries by number of mobile phones in use

RankCountry or

region

Number of mobile

phonesPopulation

% of 

populationLast updated

—  World  Over 5 billion 6,909,500,000[1]  2010[2] 

1 China  952,310,000 1,341,000,000[3]

  71.0 Oct 2011[4]

 

2 India  865,708,379 1,210,193,422[5]

  71.59 Aug 2011[6]

 

3 United States  327,577,529 310,866,000[7]

  103.9 June 2011[8]

 

4 Brazil  227,400,000 192 376 496[9]

  118.20September

2011[10]

 

5 Russia  224,260,000 142,905,200[11]

  154.5 July 2011[12]

 

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RankCountry or

region

Number of mobile

phonesPopulation

% of 

populationLast updated

6 Indonesia  168,264,000 237,556,363 73.1 May 2009[13]

 

7 Japan  121,246,700 127,628,095 95.1 June 2011[14]

 

8 Pakistan  108,894,518 171,901,000 65.4 Jun 2011[15]

 

9 Germany  107,000,000 81,882,342 130.1 2009[16]

 

10 Nigeria  90,583,306 140,000,000 64.7 Feb. 2011[17]

 

11 Mexico  88,797,186 112,322,757 79.8 Sep.2010[18]

 

12 Italy  88,580,000 60,090,400 147.4 Dec.2008[19]

 

13 Philippines  78,000,000 92,226,600 73.6 January 2010[20] 

14United

Kingdom 75,750,000 61,612,300 122.9 Dec. 2008

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