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The current world average penetration for the developing world is 6 lines per 100 people and the average for the world as a whole is 10 lines per 100 people. In India it is roughly 30 lines per 100 people, as of July 2008. There are about 40 million fixed lines and about 300 million wireless phones, as of July 2008. Telephone penetration in India (Total working lines)
Cell Phones Total number of cellular phones in India
(GSM + CDMA)
USA had about 150 million cell phones, in 2004. Biggest cell phone players of India:
Village
Panchayat telephones (VPT)
India possesses 1,468,000 route kilometers of Trunk Automatic Exchange (TAX); 86,601 route kilometers of microwave systems and 108,032 route kilometers of optical fibre systems in the long-distance transmision network, as on 31 September, 1999. Long-distance traffic is carried mostly by coaxial cable and low-capacity microwave radio relay; since 1985, however, significant trunk capacity has been added in the form of fiber-optic cable and a domestic satellite system with 254 earth stations; cellular telephone service in metropolitan cities India has satellite earth stations for international calling - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean Region); four gateway exchanges operating from Mumbai, New Delhi, Calcutta, and Chennai; submarine cables to Malaysia, UAE, Singapore, and Japan.
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Facts: - Nearly 550,000 villages, out of a total of 600,000 villages in India, are covered by telephone services. - India has 334.84 million telephone lines making it the second largest telephone network in the world (2008). - India's telecom sector's growth rate of 45% is the highest in the world. - There were about 300 million cellular mobile customers in India in July 2008. |
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