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Home> News India world's third biggest telecom network The overall teledensity rose to 18 per cent in February 2007 Thursday, March 15, 2007 NEW DELHI: India has become the third largest telecommunication network in the world only next to China and USA with reaching the mark of 203 million subscribers in February 2007. The overall teledensity rose to 18 per cent in February 2007 from 17.45 per cent in January 2007 and from 12.18 per cent as on February 28, 2006. The total number of telephones in the country crossed more than 203 million, as against a total of 196.7 million as on January 31, 2007, a growth of 3.2 per cent. The total number of telecom subscribers for the month of February rose to 6.3 million phones, with an average daily addition of more than two lakh lines. During the month, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi added more than three lakh subscribers each in the GSM segment. Almost the entire growth registered during the month was in the wireless segment with GSM and CDMA, contributing 4.88 million and 1.35 million, respectively. There was a marginal increase of about 67 thousand subscribers in the fixed line segment. In the CDMA segment, the total subscriber base registered a growth of 2.9 per cent with a net addition of 1.25 million subscribers. Maharashtra telecom circle contributed the maximum to this addition. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi added more than four lakh subscribers each during the month. The broadband connections rose to 2.12 million by the end of January 2006 and coverage of broadband connectivity by public sector service providers has reached 815 cities. Currently, the total number of existing ISP licencees is 383 Under Bharat Nirman Programme, out of the 66,822 villages, 39741 villages have been provided with village public telephone. The remaining 27081 villages will be covered by November, this year. © CyberMedia News Page(s)   1      Comments:   Name: Email:     Google to bolster user data privacy Microsoft aims at ERP access Satyam eyes $50-m buy in US, Europe Red Hat intros Enterprise Linux 5 Satyam featured on Training Magazine India preferred over China in IP protection Lankan ISP goes bust BSA seized pirated software worth $2.1 m Cyclists go virtual to beat winter blues Robot, another drink please... More news IBM developerWorks   New super-efficient HP LaserJet MFPs Click Here