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New Delhi, Mar 14: India has emerged as the third largest telecommunication network in the world after China and the US with the total telephone (mobile + fixed line) subscriber base touching 203 million at end-Februrary. With this the overall teledensity has reached 18% as against 17.45% in January and 12.18% in February last year, an official statement said on Wednesday.
The sector grew at 3.2% with an addition of about 6.3 million subscribers in February —an average daily addition of more than 2 lakh lines. The total number of telephone connections in the country stood at 196.7 million in January.
During the month, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi added more than 3 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.
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