Bharti Airtel Ltd., Reliance Communications Ltd. and other Indian carriers added a record 7.34 million mobile-phone users in June, the regulator said.
India had 185.13 million cellular-phone subscribers last month, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in an e- mailed statement. The total number of telephone users, including fixed-line customers, stood at 225.21 million. India added 6.57 million mobile-phone users in May.
Telecommunications penetration in India expanded to 19.86 percent of the nation's population, compared with 19.26 percent at the end of May, the Telecom Regulatory Authority said today.
The world's cheapest wireless call rates are boosting usage in India. China's mobile-phone users totaled more than 500 million in June, double that of the U.S.
Source : Shailendra Bhatnagar
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ajSRExtv0iBQ&refer=india
0 comments