TRAI

·         On July 3, 2008 TRAI revealed that  India added 27.45 million mobile subscribers in the quarter ended March 31, taking the total number of connections to 261.07 million

·         Accordingly, the combined tele-density in the country rose to 26.22 percent

·         This amounts to a growth of 11.75 percent in the wireless telephony market.

·         The number of mobile telephones in the quarter ended Dec 31, 2007 was 233.62 million.

·         The 261.07 million telephones include 192.70 million GSM and 68.37 million CDMA connections.

·         While GSM operators clocked a combined growth rate of 11.89 percent, CDMA service providers registered a growth rate of 11.37 percent in the quarter.

·         Bharti Airtel retained its market position with the maximum number of subscribers. It operates in 23 circles offering GSM services with a market share of 23.74 percent.

·         Reliance Communications - which has interests in both GSM and CDMA space - has 17.54 percent of mobile subscribers.

·         The fixed line market saw a growth of 10.12 percent during the quarter, taking the subscriber base from 272.87 million in December 2007 to 300.48 in the last quarter of 2007-08.

·         The total revenue of the telecom service sector for the finacial year 2007-0 was Rs.1.29 trillion. The total revenue for the quarter stood at Rs.357.7 billion.

·         The broadband subscriber base grew at 7.08 percent in the quarter to 11.09 million subscribers.

·         The government target is to reach a penetration of 20 million broadband subscribers by 2010.