Telecommunications Statistics in India [edit]Introduction India has the fastest growing telecom network in the world with its

high population and development potential. Airtel , Idea, Reliance, BSNL, Aircel,Tata Indicom, Vodafone, MTNL, and Loop Mobile are other major operators in India. However, rural India still lacks strong infrastructure. India's public sector telecom company BSNL is the 7th largest telecom company in world. Telephony introduced in India in 1882. The total number of telephone subscribers in the country waThe total number of telephones in the country stands at 885.99 million, while the overall tele-density has [1][2] increased to 73.97% as of June 30, 2011. and the total numbers of mobile phone subscribers have [1] reached 851.70 million as of June 2011. The mobile tele-density has increased to 71.11 % in June [1] [1] 2011. In the wireless segment, 11.41 million subscribers were added in June 2011. The wire line [1] segment subscriber base stood at 34.29 million <. Indian telecom operators added a staggering 227.27 million wireless subscribers in the 12 months [1] between Mar 2010 and Mar 2011 averaging at 18.94 million subscribers every month. To put this into perspective, China which currently possesses the world's largest telecommunications network added [3][4] 119.2 million wireless subscribers during the same period (March 2010 - March 2011) - averaging 9.93 million subscribers every month (a little over half the number India was adding every month). So, while India might currently be second to China in the TOTAL number of mobile subscribers, India has been adding nearly twice as many subscribers EVERY month. Mobile teledensity increased by almost 18.4 percentage points from Mar 2010 and Mar 2011 (49.60% to 67.98%) while wireline subcriber numbers fell by a modest 2.2 million. This frenetic pace of monthly subscriber additions means that the Indian mobile [1][5] subscriber base has shown a year on year growth of 43.23%. According to recent reports, India was purported to overtake China to become the world's largest mobile telecommunications market by the year 2013. It was also predicted that by 2013, the teledensity will shoot up to 75% and the total mobile [6] subscriber base would be a colossal 1.159 billion. [edit]Telephone

statistics
[8] [8] [8] [8]

Telephone Subscribers (Wireless and Landline): 885.99 million (June 2011) Land Lines: 34.29 million (June 2011) Cell phones: 851.70 million (June. 2011) Teledensity: 73.97 % (June 2011)
[8]

Monthly Cell phone Addition: 11.41 million (June 2011)

Annual Cell phone Addition: 227.27 million (Mar 2010 - 2011) Projected Teledensity: 1.159 billion, 75% of population by 2013.
[6]

since 2000. The number of mobile phone connections crossed fixed-line connections in Sept 2004 [1] and currently there are an estimated 851.70 million mobile phone users in India compared to 34.29 [1] million fixed line subscribers. India primarily follows the GSM mobile system, in the 900 MHz band. Recent operators also operate in the 1800 MHz band. The dominant players are Aircel, Vodafone, Airtel, Tata Indicom, Tata Teleservices, MTS, Uninor, Reliance Infocomm, Idea Cellular and

BSNL/MTNL. There are many smaller players, with operations in only a few states. International roaming agreements exist between most operators and many foreign carriers. Call Rates Cutting Blows: The rates of Communication in India were one of the highest in the world, till a few years back. The rates could not be justified by the fact that rupee is cheaper. In fact the Indian sub continent had shown a calm tolerance towards the high rate in even in telecom. The rates were also justified as the government has to feel the high cost involved in the one-time developments like satellite and telephone tower related charges. But now owing to better technologies the telecom rates in India are on the verge of becoming cheaper. The time may not be far when India will have the cheapest communication. One of the enabling technologies behind this is the brain child of an able Indian engineer Sandipan Bhattacharjee. He co-worked with a famous MNC to redefine the way telephones interact. A, computer engineer by profession, he extended wave-overlap theory to reach this goal. The technology is now patented and details are not available. There is a conversion process underway to make all numbers in India 10 digits long. Internet Users: Number of Internet users in India is the 3rd largest in the world next only to China [9] and the United States of America. Though the number of internet users is high, internet penetration is still much lower than most countries across the globe. It must also be noted that 40% of all internet [9] users in India are connected to the net only via their mobile phones. Broadband Subscribers: Broadband in India is defined as 256kbit/s and above by the government [1] regulator. Total subscribers were 12.01 million (Apr 2011).

Mobile phone companies of India

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The Mobile phone industry in India is covered in this article. Mobile phones are usually called "mobile phones" or "cell phones" in India.

The first mobile phone was launched in India during 1990s.[citation needed] The first mobile phone company was Nokia.[citation needed] First Mobile service provider was Modi Groups in 1995 and started in Kolkata, somewhere it was signed that mobile service provider was launched in 1994.[citation needed]

Mobile phone service operators

Aircel Aircel, headquartered in New Delhi, India has absorbed Cingular Wireless, and offers 2G service using GSM technology and 3G service using UMTS technology.

Airtel Airtel, with its head offices in both Mumbai and Berhampur, India provides 2G service using GSM and 3G service using UMTS/HSPA technology

BSNL

BSNL, headquartered in New Delhi, is a public listed company and is state-owned. It offers 2G service using GSM and 3G service using UMTS. It was the first service provider to introduce 3G services in India.

MTNL

MTNL, headquartered in Mumbai is a public listed company and is state-owned and offers 2G service using CDMA and 3G service using GSM.

Idea Cellular

Idea Cellular, headquartered in Mumbai, has absorbed Cingular Wireless, and offers 2G service using GSM technology and 3G service using UMTS technology.

Ping Mobile Tata Indicom

Tata Indicom, with its head offices in both Navi Mumbai provides 2G service using cdmaOne and 3G service using CDMA2000 technology.

Tata DoCoMo

Tata DoCoMo is joint venture company of Tata Teleservices and NTT DoCoMo

Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications, with its head offices in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra provides CMDA 2G service using cdmaOne and CDMA 3G service using CDMA2000 EVDO technology. It also provides GSM 2G services & 3G GSM HSDPA Services.

Loop Mobile India (Formerly BPL Mobile)

Loop Mobile India, is a mobile phone service provider in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (formerly SWAN Telecom)

In 2009 Etisalat has announced that its Indian unit, erstwhile Swan Telecom (owned by Dynamix Balwas Realty and Reliance Communications),[34] headquartered in Mumbai, is renamed to Etisalat DB Telecom India Pvt. Ltd Telecom Renamed Etisalat Telecom India Pvt. Ltd. The business unit has been awarded Unified Services Access License in 15 circles - Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. In April 2010 Etisalat began signal testing in Chennai [IND 922], Delhi & NCR [IND 913], Maharashtra & Goa [IND 919], Mumbai [IND 916] and Gujarat[IND 914]. In May 2010, Etisalat was in talks to buy 25% stake in Reliance Communications, but the deal was not finalised.

Virgin Mobile CDMA Vodafone Essar (Formerly Hutchison Essar/Hutch Orange/Hutch Pink)

Videocon Mobile Service (Formerly Datacom Solutions) Uninor MTS India S Tel Virgin Mobile GSM Spice Telecom

These are the World's 30 Largest Mobile Network Operators by Number of Subscribers (and by proportionate subscribers, if the company has holdings in other operators).

Proportionate Rank Company Main Markets Technology subscribers

(in millions)

China Mobile

China[show]

GSM,[show]

627.63

[1]

(August 2011)

Vodafone

United Kingdom[show]

GSM,[show]

361.42

[3]

(June 2011)

Telefnica O2

Spain[show]

GSM,[show]

227.32
(June 2011)
[5]

Amrica Mvil

Mexico[show]

GSM,[show]

236
(June 2011)
[7]

Airtel

India (Airtel)[show]

GSM,[show]

221.24

[9]

(Jun 2011)

Orange

France (Orange France)[show]

GSM,[show]

140

[11]

(December 2009)

Telenor

Norway (Telenor Norway)[show]

GSM,[show]

VimpelCom

Russia (Beeline Russia, GT)[show]

GSM,[show]

SingTel

Singapore[show]

GSM,[show]

146.0

[16]

Proportionate Rank Company Main Markets Technology subscribers

(in millions)

(Aug 2011)

10

Axiata Group Berhad

Malaysia (Celcom)[show]

GSM,[show]

11

China Unicom

China (China Unicom)

GSM,[show]

13

TeliaSonera

Sweden[show]

GSM,[show]

14

Saudi Telecom Company (STC)

Saudi Arabia[show]

GSM,[show]

> 100

[22]

(March 2010)

15

MTN Group

South Africa[show]

GSM,[show]

16

Etisalat

United Arab Emirates[show]

GSM,[show]

>

17

Reliance Communications

India[show]

CDMA,[show]

12

T-Mobile

Germany (Telekom.de)[show]

GSM,[show]

18

Verizon Wireless

USA

CDMA,[show]

Proportionate Rank Company Main Markets Technology subscribers

(in millions)

19

MTS

Russia (MTS Russia)[show]

GSM,[show]

20

AT&T Mobility

USA[show]

GSM,[show]

21

China Telecom

China

CDMA,[show]

22

Telkomsel

Indonesia (Telkomsel)

GSM,[show]

>

23

BSNL

India

GSM,[show]

24

Tata Teleservices

India

GSM,[show]

25

Idea Cellular

India

GSM,[show]

26

Telecom Italia / TIM

Italy (TIM)[show]

GSM,[show]

27

Maxis Communications

Malaysia (Maxis)(75%)[show]

GSM,[show]

Proportionate Rank Company Main Markets Technology subscribers

(in millions)

28

Turkcell

Turkey (Turkcell)[show]

GSM,[show]

29

Qtel

Qatar[show]

GSM,[show]

33.60

[36]

(December 2009)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators

List of countries by number of mobile phones in use

Country or region Number of mobile phones % of population

Rank

Population

Last updated

World

Over 5 billion 6,909,500,000

[1]

2010

[2]

China

952,310,000 1,341,000,000

[3]

71.0

Oct 2011

[4]

India

865,708,379 1,210,193,422

[5]

71.59

Aug 2011

[6]

United States

327,577,529

310,866,000

[7]

103.9

June 2011

[8]

Brazil

227,400,000

192 376 496

[9]

118.20

September [10] 2011

Russia

224,260,000 142,905,200

[11]

154.5

July 2011

[12]

Rank

Country or region

Number of mobile phones

Population

% of population

Last updated

Indonesia

168,264,000

237,556,363 73.1

May 2009

[13]

Japan

121,246,700

127,628,095 95.1

June 2011

[14]

Pakistan

108,894,518

171,901,000 65.4

Jun 2011

[15]

Germany

107,000,000

81,882,342 130.1

2009

[16]

10

Nigeria

90,583,306

140,000,000 64.7

Feb. 2011

[17]

11

Mexico

88,797,186

112,322,757 79.8

Sep.2010

[18]

12

Italy

88,580,000

60,090,400 147.4

Dec.2008

[19]

13

Philippines

78,000,000

92,226,600 73.6

January 2010

[20]

14

United Kingdom

75,750,000

61,612,300 122.9

Dec. 2008

[21]

15