Telecom News --

Telecom subscription in India crosses 500 million mark

New Delhi, November 04, 2009 - The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 509.03 Million at the end of September-09 from 494.07 Million in August-2009, thereby registering a growth rate of 3.03%. With this, the overall Tele-density in India reaches 43.50. The set target of 500 million telephones by the end of 2010 has been achieved by September 2009.

Wireless subscriber base increased from 456.74 Million in August-2009 to 471.73 Million at the end of September-09 at a monthly growth rate of 3.28%. Wireless Tele-density stands at 40.31.

Wireline subscriber base declined from 37.33 Million in August-2009 to 37.31 Million at the end of Septembert-09. This decline is mainly on account of reduction in the Wireline subscriber base of BSNL/MTNL, which lost 0.06 Million subscribers in the month of September-09. These two PSU operators hold 85.67% of the Wireline market share. Overall Wireline teledensity is 3.19.

Total Broadband subscriber base has increased from 6.98 million in August-09 to 7.22 million in September-09, thereby showing a growth of 3.29 %.

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Telecom Stats

Total Subscriber base in September 2009

Mobile Operators September month subscriber base