India’s Teledensity is now at a record 18.26% at the end of Feb-07. India now has 202.74 Million phone subscribers. India has 162 Million Wireless subscribers and mere 40.39 Million Wireline subscribers. The number of broadband connections have also increased to 2.21 Million.The Broadband Wireless Access Policy unveiled last September calls for 9 Million broadband subscribers in India by the end of 2007 and 20 Million broadband subscribers by the end of 2010. You know better where we stand 🙂
India recorded highest ever addition to its phone subscriber base – 62 Million for the 11 months of FY 2006-07. However, ARPUs are on the decline.
In a related developmnet, TRAI is likely to revise the ADC which will result in marginal reduction of STD and ISD tariffs. However, it will eat into the bottomline of BSNL and MTNL.
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