Thursday, November 5, 2009

Overall Tele- Density in India Reaches 43.50 by the end of Sep 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%. According to the monthly summary of TRAI, the overall Tele-density in India has reached 43.50. Thus set target of 500 million telephones by the end of 2010 has already been achieved by September 2009 itself.

The Wireless subscriber base which includes GSM, CDMA & FWP increased from 456.74 Million in August-2009 to 471.73 Million at the end of September-09 registering a growth rate of 3.28%. Wireless Tele-density stands at 40.31.

The Wireline subscriber base continued to decline 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 stands at 3.19. The Total Broadband (¡Ý 256 Kbps download) 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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