Under: Growth, Buzzing Sector, Telecom, Telecoms sector, Wireless, BroadBand,BSNL,MTNL, PSU operators,
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 543.2mn at the end of November-09 from 525.65mn in October-09, thereby registering a growth rate of 3.34%. With this, the overall Tele-density in India reaches 46.32.
Wireless Segment (GSM, CDMA & FWP)
Wireless subscriber base increased from 488.4mn in October-09 to 506.04mn at the end of November-09 at a monthly growth rate of 3.61%. Wireless Tele-density stands at 43.15. Detailed statistics is at Annexure-I.
Category wise Net Additions during the Month of November 2009
| Category | Net Additions | |
| Wireline | Wireless | |
| Circle A | -55159 | 5215161 |
| Circle B | -45562 | 7936112 |
| Circle C | -7094 | 2430753 |
| Metro | 10160 | 2064954 |
| All India | -97655 | 17646980 |
Wireline Segment
Wireline subscriber base declined from 37.25 Million in October-09 to 37.16 Million at the end of November-09. BSNL/MTNL, two PSU operators hold 85.35% of the Wireline market share. However, they lost 0.13 Million subscribers in the month of November-09. Overall Wireline teledensity is 3.17. Detailed statistics is at Annexure-II.
Category-wise Growth Rate in Access Service
| Category | Monthly Rate of Growth (October-09 to November-09) | Yearly rate of growth (November-08 to November-09) | ||
| Wireline | Wireless | Wireline | Wireless | |
| Circle A | -0.44% | 3.1% | -4.2% | 47.9% |
| Circle B | -0.35% | 4.3% | -4.1% | 53.7% |
| Circle C | -0.22% | 4.0% | -5.3% | 68.8% |
| Metro | 0.12% | 2.8% | 4.8% | 36.9% |
| All India | -0.26% | 3.6% | -2.3% | 50.6% |
Broadband (≥ 256 Kbps download)
Total Broadband subscriber base has increased from 7.40 million in October-09 to 7.57 million in November, thereby showing a growth of 2.26 %.
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