In India every one in five owns a phone

The total number of telephone subscribers has reached 232.87 million at the end of July 2007 as compared to 225.01 million in June 2007. The overall tele-density has increased to 20.52 in July 2007 as compared to 19.86 in June 2007.

In the wireless segment, 8.06 million subscribers have been added in July 2007 while 7.34 million subscribers were added in June 2007. The total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & WLL (F)) base is 192.98 million now. The wireline segment subscriber base stood at 39.89 million with a decline of 0.20 million in July 2007.

Total broadband connections in the country have reached 2.47 million by the end of July, with an addition of 50 thousand links. In July, the GSM subscriber base grew from 135.9 million in June to 141.74 million. This translates into an overall growth of 4.23% over the previous month when the addition was was 5.3 million. The country's top mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, captured 31.58% share of the market. It added 2 million new users and its subscriber base touched 44.76 million.Vodafone Essar added 1.68 million new users to take its user base to 32.43 million to retain the second slot, while state-run BSNL, which is struggling with capacity expansion, added just 0.55 million new users to remain at the third slot with a user base of 28.97 million.

Complete Report:- TRAI's Press Release Dated 24-08-2007