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And now, every fourth Indian is connected

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&i [2008-7-14]

Tag : fixed cellular terminal
With the total wireless subscriber base crossing 261 million as onMarch 31, wireless connectivity forms 22 percent of the totaltele-density at 25 percent across the country, the survey adds.

The annual survey by Voice and Data of CyberMedia group revealedthat the Indian telecom subscriber base zoomed by 66 percentyear-on-year (YoY) in the fiscal under review over the previousyear.

"A booming economy, easing of entry barriers and lowering oftariffs fuelled the growth in FY 2008, with 104 million newsubscribers getting connected and making India the second fastestgrowing telecom market in the world," CyberMedia publisher PrasantoK. Roy said Tuesday, citing the survey findings.

The trigger for rapid telecom service growth was the revolutionarytelecom policies of the present United Progressive Alliance (UPA)and the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) governments,resulting in affordable connectivity to a common man.

""With India's telecom tariffs still the lowest in the world,there's enormous and sustained growth beyond the metros. So telcossee huge opportunity in the three-fourths of Indians stilluntouched by the mobile phone revolution," Roy noted.

Leading the growth was the proliferating cellular service in urbanand rural areas, accounting for 59 percent of the total revenue,followed by fixed line and international long distance (ILD).

"A whopping 104 million more subscribers were connected during thefiscal under review, with about 50 percent of them originating fromtertiary and rural areas," the survey said.

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