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India now has 5,432.00 lakh telephones | India now has 5,432.00 lakh telephones |
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| Wednesday, 06 January 2010 | |
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The expansion of the telecom sector was further consolidated with an increase of 175.41 lakh in the number of telecom subscribers in India during the month of November 2009. As a result, the total number of telephones in the country is 5,432.00 lakh as on 30th November 2009; as compared to 3741.26 lakh as on 30th November 2008.
The Wireless (GSM+CDMA) segment has registered an increase of 176.39 lakh. The Wire-line segment has declined by 0.98 lakh respectively during the month of November 2009. Tele-density The overall tele-density improved further to 46.32 per cent in November 2009 as compared to 32.34 per cent as on November 2008.
Growth trend - Circle wise Rural Telephony Under Bharat Nirman Programme, 408 VPTs were provided in the month of October 2009. Thus, out of the targeted 62,302 villages, a total of 60,208 villages have been provided with VPTs till October 2009. |