New Delhi: With the total number of telephone connections crossing 203 million, India now has the third largest telecom network in the world after China and the US.
And with monthly mobile additions at six million, India has already surpassed China.
The overall teledensity has risen to 18 per cent in February from 17.45 per cent in January 2007 and from 12.18 per cent as on February 28, 2006, a Government statement said.
As a result, the total number of telephones in the country has jumped by 3.2 per cent from 196.7 million on January 31 to more than 203 million – making it the world's third largest telecommunication network next only to China and the US.
The rapid expansion of the telecom sector maintained its increasing trend with an addition of about 6.3 million users during February – an average daily addition of more than 2,00,000 lines, PTI quoted the statement.
With GSM contributing 4.88 million and CDMA contributing 1.35 million, almost, the entire growth registered during the month was in the wireless segment.
Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi added more than 3,00,000 subscribers each in the GSM segment during the month.
In the CDMA segment, the total subscriber base registered a growth of 2.9 per cent with a net addition of 1.25 million subscribers.
Maharashtra telecom circle contributed the maximum to this addition. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi added more than 4,00,000 subscribers each during the month.
But fixed line segment has shown a marginal increase with the addition of about 67,000 subscribers during the period.
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