Telecom subscribers growth inches towards 6 million

Category: News | 1 Comment | Posted on September 12, 2006

According this report released by TRAI today, 5.94 million subscribers were added in August as compared to 4.94 million net additions during July 2006.

It may be noted that the WLL (Fixed) subscribers of all the operators are now being considered as mobile subscribers in view of clarification issued by DoT and accordingly the mobile and fixed line subscriber figures from April 2006 onwards have been changed.

5.90 million mobile subscribers and 0.04 million-fixed line subscribers were added during August 2006. At the end of August 2006, total Fixed lines were, 40.87 millions and mobiles were 123.44 million. The gross telephony subscribers in country reached 164.31 million as compared to 158.37 million in July 2006.

The overall tele-density reached around 14.80 in August 2006 as compared to 14.40 at the end of July 2006.

The net addition of mobile and fixed line subscribers in the first five months of FY 2006-07 is 23.99 million as compared to 10.51 million in the corresponding period of FY 2005-06.

Now that is some impressive growth, considering that the base is not small.

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