11-09-2004, 07:10 AM
<b>Cellphones outstrip landlines in India</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI (AFP) - Mobile phone users have outstripped traditional landline connections in India, the government announced.
Some 44.5 million Indians now use mobile handsets, compared with the 43.9 million existing landline users, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in a statement.
"And thus the number of mobile subscribers has now crossed fixed telephony subscribers in the country," the regulator said, following the addition of 1.2 million cellular telephone users since April.
According to US-based investment bank Morgan Stanley, India's mobile market is expected to grow at a compound average rate of 40 percent until 2007.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW DELHI (AFP) - Mobile phone users have outstripped traditional landline connections in India, the government announced.
Some 44.5 million Indians now use mobile handsets, compared with the 43.9 million existing landline users, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in a statement.
"And thus the number of mobile subscribers has now crossed fixed telephony subscribers in the country," the regulator said, following the addition of 1.2 million cellular telephone users since April.
According to US-based investment bank Morgan Stanley, India's mobile market is expected to grow at a compound average rate of 40 percent until 2007.
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