Overall Tele-density in India improves to 80.44 at end of August 2015
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,009.31 million at the end of Jul-15 to 1,014.70 million at the end of Aug-15, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.53%. The urban subscription increased from 588.53 million at the end of Jul-15 to 591.52 million at the end of Aug-15 and the rural subscription increased from 420.78 million to 423.18 million during the same period. The monthly growth rates of urban and rural subscription were 0.51% and 0.57% respectively during the month of Aug-15.The overall Tele-density in India increased from 80.09 at the end of Jul-15 to 80.44 at the end of Aug-15. The Urban Tele-density increased from 150.56 at the end of Jul-15 to 151.09 at the end of Aug-15. The Rural Tele-density increased from 48.40 at the end of Jul-15 to 48.64 at the end of Aug-15. The shares of urban subscribers and rural subscribers at the end of Aug-15 were 58.30% and 41.70% respectively.
Total wireless subscriber base increased from 983.21 million at the end of Jul-15 to 988.69 million at the end of Aug-15, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of 0.56%. The Wireless subscription in urban areas increased from 567.29 million at the end of Jul-15 to 570.33 million at the end of Aug-15, and wireless subscription in rural areas increased from 415.92 million to 418.36 million during the same period. The monthly growth rates of urban and rural wireless subscription were 0.54% and 0.59% respectively.
Wireline subscriber base declined from 26.10 million at the end of Jul-15 to 26.01 million at the end of Aug-15. Net reduction in the wireline subscriber base was 0.09 million at the monthly decline rate of 0.35%. The share of urban and rural subscribers in total wireline subscribers were 81.48% and 18.52% respectively at the end of Aug-15.
As per the reports received from the service providers, the number of broadband subscribers increased from 113.32 Million at the end of Jul- 15 to 117.34 million at the end of Aug-15 with monthly growth rate of 3.55%.
Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
In the month of Aug-15, a total of 4.31 million subscribers submitted their requests for MNP. Among these MNP requests, 0.36 million MNP requests were for Inter-Service Area MNP. With this, the cumulative MNP requests increased from 167.91 million at the end of Jul-15 to 172.22 million at the end of Aug-15.
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