Indian Teledensity 15.41

Today, the TRAI (Telecomm Regulatory Authority of India) released a press release on the quarterly performance indicators of Telecomm services. Had most of the Indian telecomm statistics. And what could be a better start for my Telecomm India.

Some statistics:
The teledensity in the year ending Sept. 2006 was 15.41 registering a growth of 48.75% as compared to Sept. 2005. The gross subscriber base (fixed and wireless) reached 170.02 million with 129.54 million wireless subscribers. Number of PCOs are 5.15 million and VPTs are 0.55 million covering 86% of the 0.61 million villages in India.

The all India blended ARPU per month for GSM (CDMA) services has declined to Rs. 337 (Rs. 215). The all India average subscriber outgo per minute (rental+airtime revenue) for GSM is Rs. 1.45 and that for CDMA is Rs. 1.05.

Internet subscriber registered an annual growth of 31.64% and stood at 8.08 Million. 1.82 million users are the so called broadband users (>256 kbps). The average minute of use per user per month for dial up Internet is 185 minutes (down 5minutes from the previous quarter). Revenue per user per month for dial up was Rs. 220.

Read the full press release at the TRAI website.
http://www.trai.gov.in/trai/upload/PressReleases/422/pr17jan07no9.pdf