Mobile user count goes up by 5.9 m

NEW DELHI

, SEPT 12:

India

added 5.9 million mobile subscribers in August, taking the total wireless subscriber base to 123.44 million, according to latest figures released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).

Another 0.04 million land line connections were added, taking the total landline connections to 40.87 million.
As of August end, total telecom subscriber base in the country stood at 164.31 million, as against 158.37 million in July, 2006.

The overall teledensity reached around 14.80 in August as compared to 14.40 at the end of July. The net addition of mobile and fixed line subscribers in the first five months of the fiscal stood at 23.99 million as against 10.51 million in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.

Source- http://www.financialexpress.com

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