ContentSutra has summarized the highlights of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Press Release on mobile and broadband usage:
– Total number of mobile users in the country as of January 2006 is 80.61 million
– Gross telecom user base is around 130 million, so teledensity nears 12 per cent in January compared to 11.43 per cent in February
– Broadband base touches one million (the broadband target as of December 2005 was 3 million – so massively fallen short)
– Total Internet subscribers base crosses 7.5 million (the total net users, acording to IAMAI, is 38.5 million). To be fair, total net subscriber target of 6 million by December 2005 was exceeded
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what is of interest to note is the percentage growth in broadband connections from around 50,000 connections (Jan ’05) to 1 million (Jan ’06)in one year period. I am sure we will see this trend continuing.