India's telecom growth pattern continues with mobile operators adding 9.16 million subscribers in August to the world's second largest wireless market.
The total wireless subscriber base, which includes GSM, CDMA and WLL(F), stood at 305.24 million at the end of August 2008. A total of 9.16 million wireless subscribers have been added during August 2008, against 9.22 million wireless subscribers added during July 2008, TRAI said today.
Since wireline segment witnessed a decline, the total number of telephone connection added was 9.03 million (both fixed line and wireless) during August 2008, compared with 9.06 million connections added in July 2008.
The total number of telephone connections reaches 343.87 million at the end of August 2008, compared with 334.84 million in July 2008. With this growth, the overall tele-density has reached 29.83 per cent at the end of August 2008, against 29.08 per cent in July 2008.
Innovative and cheap tariffs in paise, lower handset costs and suave marketing skills by mobile companies like Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea have lured millions of Indians to own a mobile phone.
With this the tele-density (number of people having a telephone connection per 100 ) reached 29.83 per cent mark.
In the wireline segment, the subscriber base has slightly decreased to 38.63 million in August 2008, against 38.76 million subscribers in July 2008.
Total Broadband subscribers base has reached 4.73 million by the end of August 2008 as compared to 4.57 million by the end of July 2008.
