Hindi Chini bhai bhai

Posted on | September 14, 2006 |

If Sino-Indian co-operation had taken off as intended during the 1950s, we would be reaping the benefits now. Imagine the advantage indigenous telecom manufacturing and services companies could have had with a combined market size that huge.

Putting competition and comparison between these two giants aside, here is another telecom stat worth noting.

According to a recent Wireless Intelligence report, the global mobile industry has been growing at around 40m subscribers per month and 25% of that growth this year is coming from India and China.

The global mobile user base by end of 2007 is expected to touch 3 billion and 25% (700 million) of that user base will be in India and China. The neighbours are expected add around 70-80 million subscribers each by then.

India added 5.9 million new telecom subscribers in August 2006, while China added 5.19m in the same period.

For the first time ever, India has overtaken China in terms of new additions according to COAI.

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