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Telephone: Mobile Telephones

Telephone service in India has undergone major changes in recent decades. Landline calls within an area code are considered local, while calls between area codes are long distance. The government is working to integrate the country under one area code. For long distance and international calls, area codes must be dialed first. Mobile phone subscriptions now greatly outnumber landlines, with over 851 million subscribers as of 2011. However, landlines are still prominent in some states. The telecommunications sector continues expanding rapidly to connect more of the population.

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Telephone: Mobile Telephones

Telephone service in India has undergone major changes in recent decades. Landline calls within an area code are considered local, while calls between area codes are long distance. The government is working to integrate the country under one area code. For long distance and international calls, area codes must be dialed first. Mobile phone subscriptions now greatly outnumber landlines, with over 851 million subscribers as of 2011. However, landlines are still prominent in some states. The telecommunications sector continues expanding rapidly to connect more of the population.

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On landlines, intra-circle calls are considered local calls while inter-circle are considered long distance calls. Currently Government is working to integrate the whole country in one telecom circle. For long distance calls, the area code prefixed with a zero is dialed first which is then followed by the number (i.e. To call Delhi, 011 would be dialed first followed by the phone number). For international calls, "00" must be dialed first followed by the country code, area code and local phone number. The country code for India is 91. Telephone Subscribers (Wireless and Landline): 885.99 million (June 2011) [4] Land Lines: 34.29 million (June 2011)[4] Cell phones: 851.70 million (June 2011) [4] Monthly Cell phone Addition: 11.41 million (June 2011) [4] Teledensity: 73.97 % (June 2011) [4] Projected Teledensity: 1 billion, 84% of population by 2012.[29] [edit]Mobile

telephones

See also: List of mobile network operators of India and List of mobile network operators With a subscriber base of more than 851 million,[4] the Mobile telecommunications system in India is the second largest in the world and it was thrown open to private players in the 1990s. The country is divided into multiple zones, called circles (roughly along state boundaries). Government and several private players run local and long distance telephone services. Competition has caused prices to drop and calls across India are one of the cheapest in the world.[30] The rates are supposed to go down further with new measures to be taken by the Information Ministry.[31] In September 2004, the number of mobile phone connections crossed the number of fixed-line connections and presently dwarfs the wireline segment by a ratio of around 20:1.[4] The mobile subscriber base has grown by a factor of over a hundred and thirty, from 5 million subscribers in 2001 to over 851 million subscribers as of June 2011 [4] (a period of 10 years) . India primarily follows theGSM mobile system, in the 900 MHz band. Recent operators also operate in the 1800 MHz band. The dominant players are Airtel, Reliance Infocomm, Vodafone,Idea cellular and BSNL/MTNL. There are many smaller players, with operations in only a few states. International roaming agreements exist between most operators and many foreign carriers. India is divided into 22 telecom circles. They are listed below:[4] Assam Andhra Pradesh Bihar Delhi & NCR Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir

Karnataka Kerala Kolkata Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra & Goa Mumbai North East (Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, & Tripura) Orissa Punjab Rajasthan Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh (East) Uttar Pradesh (West) West Bengal

A list of states (including the metros Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai in their respective states and excluding National Capital Territory Delhi) with the largest subscriber base as of Mar 03rd 2011 is given below State Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh West Bengal Bihar Karnataka Gujarat Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh Delhi Kerala Punjab India Subscriber base[4] 116,889,074 101,065,519 72,763,544 62,560,974 65,829,685 57,336,840 51,221,157 48,818,855 44,473,945 48,134,232 41,171,114 32,757,390 30,147,893 851,695,668 Population (01/03/2011) [32] 199,581,477 112,372,972 72,138,958 84,665,533 91,347,736 103,804,637 61,130,704 60,383,628 68,621,012 72,597,565 16,753,235 33,387,677 27,704,236 1,210,193,422 586 899 1009 739 721 552 838 809 648 663 2,458 981 1,088 704 Mobile phones per 1000 population

[edit]Landlines

Until the New Telecom Policy was announced in 1999, only the Governmentowned BSNL and MTNL were allowed to provide landline phone services throughcopper wire in India with MTNL operating in Delhi and Mumbai and BSNL servicing all other areas of the country. Due to the rapid growth of the cellular phone industry in India, landlines are facing stiff competition from cellular operators. This has forced landline service providers to become more efficient and improve their quality of service. Landline connections are now also available on demand, even in high density urban areas. The breakup of wireline subscriber base in India as of September 2009 is given below[33] Operator Subscriber base

BSNL

25,378,036

MTNL

3,458,399

Bharti Airtel

3,280,658

Reliance Communications 1,232,060

Tata Teleservices

1,289,179

HFCL Infotel

188,943

Teleservices Ltd

38,037

All India

34,865,312

The list of eight states (including the metros Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai in their respective states) with largest subscriber base as of June 2011 is given below[33] State Maharashtra Tamil Nadu Kerala Subscriber base 5,845,504 3,481,360 3,302,031

Uttar Pradesh Karnataka Delhi West Bengal

2,326,813 2,741,983 2,829,816 2,173,485

Andhra Pradesh 2,376,882 Gujarat 2,286,888

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