India To Have 492 Million Mobile Phone User By End-2009
A cellular industry body Wednesday said it expects India to have some 492 million mobile phone users by the year-end, compared with 392 million at the end of March. The Cellular Operators Association of India – which represents more than a dozen telecommunications companies offering GSM services – expects the industry’s mobile subscriber base to reach close to 900 million by 2012. GSM is short for global system for mobile communications technology, and three of four of India’s 391.76 million users are on this platform.
“Even with the subscriber base of 900 million, the teledensity would be just 72.4%,” COAI said.
Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s largest telecommunication service provider by number of subscribers, had some 96.73 million users at the end of April.
