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India About To Become Second Largest Wireless Market

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India is poised to become the world’s second-largest wireless market after China by April 2008, having added 8.53 million new mobile phone users in February.

As per data compiled by telecom regulator TRAI, India had 250.93 million wireless users in February-end compared to 256 million in the United States and 540.5 million in China.

India’s monthly wireless subscriber addition is the highest in the range of 8-9 million a month. Thus, India’s wireless subscriber base during the first half of April 2008 will surpass that of the US and become the second largest wireless network in the world.

Not only this, the total subscriber base (wireless+wireline) of India will also cross the 300-million mark in April 2008.

According to CTIA, the association of wireless operators in the US, the current subscriber base there is 256 million. And that country is adding 2-3 million subscribers a month compared to India’s 8-9 million.

Source: Economic Times

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