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1.Indian Telephony: Growth and Trends
1.1 Stupendous growth
India has become one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. The mobile services were commercially launched in August 1995 in India. In the initial 5-6 years the average monthly subscribers additions were around 0.05 to 0.1 million only and the total mobile subscribers base in December 2002 stood at 10.5 millions. However, after the number of proactive initiatives taken by regulator and licensor, the monthly mobile subscriber additions increased to around 2 million per month in the year 2003-04 and 2004-05. For the year 2005-06, the first 9 months have seen an addition of 26 million mobile subscribers, which translates into average addition of 3 million subscribers monthly. The additions in the month of December 2005 alone have touched around 4.5 million.
In China the mobile service were commercially launched in the year 1988 as compared to 1995 in India. Thus China is ahead of India by about 7 years in starting mobile services. China has been recognized as one of the fastest developing country in deployment of mobile telephony service since it has been adding about 4 to 5 million mobile subscribers per month in the last 5 years. India has also achieved this landmark in December 2005 when the mobile subscribers addition reached around 4.5 million in a single month for the first time since the launch of mobile service in the year 1995. Thus India has really caught up with China in mobile growth. Rather the performance of Indian mobile sector is better than China if we compare first 11 years of India 20 Vs. China.
1.1 Stupendous growth
India has become one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. The mobile services were commercially launched in August 1995 in India. In the initial 5-6 years the average monthly subscribers additions were around 0.05 to 0.1 million only and the total mobile subscribers base in December 2002 stood at 10.5 millions. However, after the number of proactive initiatives taken by regulator and licensor, the monthly mobile subscriber additions increased to around 2 million per month in the year 2003-04 and 2004-05. For the year 2005-06, the first 9 months have seen an addition of 26 million mobile subscribers, which translates into average addition of 3 million subscribers monthly. The additions in the month of December 2005 alone have touched around 4.5 million.
In China the mobile service were commercially launched in the year 1988 as compared to 1995 in India. Thus China is ahead of India by about 7 years in starting mobile services. China has been recognized as one of the fastest developing country in deployment of mobile telephony service since it has been adding about 4 to 5 million mobile subscribers per month in the last 5 years. India has also achieved this landmark in December 2005 when the mobile subscribers addition reached around 4.5 million in a single month for the first time since the launch of mobile service in the year 1995. Thus India has really caught up with China in mobile growth. Rather the performance of Indian mobile sector is better than China if we compare first 11 years of India 20 Vs. China.