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Abhijeet S
THE KEY PLAYERS IN THE TELECOM MARKET IN INDIA
Cellular Service provider:
Airtel
Vodafone
BSNL
Spice/Idea
Reliance
Tata indicom
Aircel
MTNL
Subscribers
• Wireless subscribers crosses 200 million mark
• Tele density reaches 21.20%
• India has become the second largest wireless network given the
exceptional growth in Mobile subscribers in India.
According to latest release by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory authority of India), the total wireless subscribers base stood at 261.09 million at the end of March 2008, compared to 255 million subscribers in U.S. A total of 10.16 million wireless subscribers have been added in the month of March 2008 as against 8.53 million wireless subscribers added in the month of February 2008.
Another landmark that March saw was reaching a total telephone connections to 300 million (wireline+wireless). The overall tele-density is pegged at 26.22% at the end of March 2008 as against 25.31% in February 2008.
The total number of telephone subscribers has reached 241.02 million at the end of August 2007 as compared to 232.87 million in July 2007. The overall teledensity has increased to 21.20% in August 2007 as compared to 20.52% in July 2007.
In the wireless segment, 8.31 million subscribers have been added in August 2007 while 8.06 million subscribers were added in July 2007. The total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & WLL (F)) base reaches 201.29 million at the end of August 2007.