India becomes 2nd largest group of mobile phone users

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: After becoming the  second most populated country in the world, India is set to achieve another record of having half a billion wireless connections, thus becoming the second largest group of mobile phone users after China.

With 488.40 million wireless connections at the end of October 2009, India will breach half-billion wireless connections by the end of the year. The country will now have teledensity (phone connections per 100 population) of roughly 45%, an urban teledensity closer to 97% and a rural teledensity of about 18%.

However, the actual number of subscribers might be less than half a billion, since a few hold multiple SIM cards and not all of them are in use at the same time.  Mobile phone being a preferred technology for voice and data communications has resulted in the decline of wireline connectivity to 37.25 million phones.