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NEW DELHI - India, the world's fastest growing mobile market, added a record 3.187 million new users for wireless services based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication platform, an industry body said on Thursday.
The new additions by nine GSM carriers raised their user base to 58.503 million customers in December, according to the Cellular Operators' Association. India has the world's lowest call rates at less than 2 U.S. cents a minute which has been luring subscribers. The number of new users in December was the highest since services were launched more than a decade ago. GSM carriers added 2.32 million new users in November.
Intense competition has forced carriers to offer juicy discounts and freebies to users. India has 75.177 million mobile users including customers who use facilities based on the rival Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology. Six carriers operate CDMA based mobile services and some offer both GSM and CDMA services.
Less than eight in a 100 Indians use mobile services at the moment and networks cover only a third of the country. Demand for mobile services is growing rapidly as carriers are expanding their networks in rural areas where two-thirds of India's billion-plus people live.
State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), India's top telecoms firm by sales, added 1.01 million users, taking its GSM user base to 14.298 million customers. India's top mobile services firm, Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd., 30.84 percent owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., added 911,148 users in December, boosting its wireless user base to 16.327 million.
UK-based mobile giant Vodafone Group Plc. also owns a 10 percent stake in New Delhi-based Bharti, one of the most aggressive players in the sector. Hutchison Essar Telecom Ltd., the Indian wireless operation of Hong Kong's Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd., added 730,763 new users in December. The firm's user base stood at 11.413 million customers. |
Source : http://www.keralanext.com/news/?id=495320
Last edited by manumiglani on Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:38 am; edited 1 time in totalIndia has both gam and cdma working well. Cell phone is slowly becoming a must have thing. People are upgrading pones to better ones. Colour gprs phones are finding bigger markets. Companies like nokia have even decided to manufacture in India.
Everythings not all colourful -
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· In India, it is estimated that about 350-400 million are below the poverty line, 75 per cent of them in the rural areas.
· More than 40 per cent of the population is illiterate, with women, tribal and scheduled castes particularly affected.
· It would be incorrect to say that all poverty reduction programmes have failed. The growth of the middle class (which was virtually non-existent when India became a free nation in August 1947) indicates that economic prosperity has indeed been very impressive in India, but the DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH has been very uneven.
· The main causes of poverty are illiteracy, a population growth rate by far exceeding the economic growth rate for the better part of the past 50 years, protectionist policies pursued since 1947 to 1991 which prevented large amounts of foreign investment in the country.
· Poverty alleviation is expected to make better progress in the next 50 years than in the past, as a trickle-down effect of the growing middle class. Increasing stress on education, reservation of seats in government jobs and the increasing empowerment of women and the economically weaker sections of society, are also expected to contribute to the alleviation of poverty.
· Poverty in India has been reduced by 10 percent over the last few years.
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Source: http://www.unsiap.or.jp/participants_work/cos03_homepages/group4/boon-india-present.htm First off, manumiglani, if you do not start using the quote tags, I will start trashing your posts/threads and sending them to the spam can.
And then, Carupieara, I don't see how a post about India's growing mobile phone market needs a post having the following points as a reply...?
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· In India, it is estimated that about 350-400 million are below the poverty line, 75 per cent of them in the rural areas.
· More than 40 per cent of the population is illiterate, with women, tribal and scheduled castes particularly affected. |
Yes, so we know that a big part of India is poor, and more than 40% of the population is illiterate, but that has really not got much to do with the mobile phone market's boom. | tidruG wrote: |
And then, Carupieara, I don't see how a post about India's growing mobile phone market needs a post having the following points as a reply...?
| Quote: | · In India, it is estimated that about 350-400 million are below the poverty line, 75 per cent of them in the rural areas.
· More than 40 per cent of the population is illiterate, with women, tribal and scheduled castes particularly affected. |
Yes, so we know that a big part of India is poor, and more than 40% of the population is illiterate, but that has really not got much to do with the mobile phone market's boom. |
Mobile phones and poverty don't have much in common but it pisses me off to see people posting about 3.2m mobile phone users when 300m people don't have food to eat. Whats the use of painting a pretty picture when the dark reality is something else? | Quote: |
| First off, manumiglani, if you do not start using the quote tags, I will start trashing your posts/threads and sending them to the spam can. |
i am really sorry for that..... i just forgot.... i have rectify that
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Mobile phones and poverty don't have much in common but it pisses me off to see people posting about 3.2m mobile phone users when 300m people don't have food to eat. Whats the use of painting a pretty picture when the dark reality is something else? |
man you are showing the data of april 2002 ..... | manumiglani wrote: |
man you are showing the data of april 2002 ..... |
You mean that India has gotten richer since 2002. The rich may be getting richer but the poor are damn getting poorer. | Carupieara wrote: |
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man you are showing the data of april 2002 ..... |
You mean that India has gotten richer since 2002. The rich may be getting richer but the poor are damn getting poorer. |
Thats what I call height of pessimism. Besides that I would like to point out the fact that its not rich people who are contributing in this upsurge, its the middle class. And yes conditions are improving, if not for all, then atleast for a few. | Carupieara wrote: |
| Mobile phones and poverty don't have much in common but it pisses me off to see people posting about 3.2m mobile phone users when 300m people don't have food to eat. Whats the use of painting a pretty picture when the dark reality is something else? |
I understand where you're coming from.
However, in a certain sense, poverty is something that's taken for granted. There is nothing new about it... poverty did, does and will exist for a loong loooong time.
Also I think it doesn't make sense to ignore all the good news just because the picture isn't completely pretty. That would make things like how S3nd K3ys claims American Medis has become - "...all about everything that goes wrong in Iraq, rather than anything that goes right..." I hope you got my point... somtimes I am not very clear in getting things across.in India the number of people using cellphones have increased a lot.
Cellphone giants like nokia samsung ,LG are setting up units here a the prices will definetly come down and the number of people opting mobile phones over wired connections will increase.
wow !!
how many phone companies are there ?
In egypt we have only 2 companies one of them was celebrating the last month cause they reached ( 3 million ) users
Population in egypt is just 70 million
Well, LG, Nokia, etc are all cellphone manufacturers, not service providers...
The major service providers are Reliance, Hutch, Airtel, idea, and some companies which offer service only in select states or cities... so yeah, there are a lot of cell-phone service providers.
I read somewhere that india, like a few other developing coutries, have the option (if not the benefit) of "leap-frogging" technological evolutions. For example, india never had the fundamental hardwire landline implemented like so much of the developed world, yet it affects them very little as they are able to make perfect sensible use of wireless telecommunication technology!
I'ts cool because, unlike the inventing countries of these innovations india now has the ability to advance concurrently with the most developed countries in the world.
So i think, isn't techonolgy and science and creativity at least doing something productive for everyone? With call rates so low and stuff like that, aren't the poor(er) people closer to being able to afford a phone call?
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I read somewhere that india, like a few other developing coutries, have the option (if not the benefit) of "leap-frogging" technological evolutions. For example, india never had the fundamental hardwire landline implemented like so much of the developed world, yet it affects them very little as they are able to make perfect sensible use of wireless telecommunication technology!
I'ts cool because, unlike the inventing countries of these innovations india now has the ability to advance concurrently with the most developed countries in the world.
So i think, isn't techonolgy and science and creativity at least doing something productive for everyone? With call rates so low and stuff like that, aren't the poor(er) people closer to being able to afford a phone call? |
Actually India has been wired for quite some time... communication has been through wired lines mostly for quite some time... wireless has just been catching up recently.
However, you are right in that lots of poor people are able to afford having cell phones. IN fact, I have seen many auto-rickshaw drivers carrying cell phones around, so that regular customers can call them up! | Quote: |
| However, you are right in that lots of poor people are able to afford having cell phones. IN fact, I have seen many auto-rickshaw drivers carrying cell phones around, so that regular customers can call them up! |
exactly right!! i happened to see a door to door milk vendor carry a mobile phone 
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wireless has just been catching up recently.
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ir i remember correctly, it was only around 2000-2001 that the mobile phone market really began to take off. the speed in which it has been catching up is pretty amazing!! | tidruG wrote: |
| helk wrote: | I read somewhere that india, like a few other developing coutries, have the option (if not the benefit) of "leap-frogging" technological evolutions. For example, india never had the fundamental hardwire landline implemented like so much of the developed world, yet it affects them very little as they are able to make perfect sensible use of wireless telecommunication technology!
I'ts cool because, unlike the inventing countries of these innovations india now has the ability to advance concurrently with the most developed countries in the world.
So i think, isn't techonolgy and science and creativity at least doing something productive for everyone? With call rates so low and stuff like that, aren't the poor(er) people closer to being able to afford a phone call? |
Actually India has been wired for quite some time... communication has been through wired lines mostly for quite some time... wireless has just been catching up recently.
However, you are right in that lots of poor people are able to afford having cell phones. IN fact, I have seen many auto-rickshaw drivers carrying cell phones around, so that regular customers can call them up! |
Many people who earn less than $5 a day are using cell phones. They see an increase in their income by using cellphones. In my hostel(which is located in a place 25km from the city), you can call an auto 5minutes before you start and they would be ready to pick you up. Whenver one auto guy is busy, he calls up another guy who is free. After all, communication is very important to bring people out of poverty.
Latest news - India added 5.6million users during sep2006.in countries such as india and the philippines using mobile phone units would be cheaper. there are lots of places that don't have phone lines yet, getting one connected would cost more. and the greater people's income is in a day to day basis. landlione phone subscriptions would charge them monthly -- one time big time. these are some reasons a there are a lot of mobile phone users.
