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India has the fastest growing telecom network in the world with its high population and development potential. Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Uninor, Reliance, Tata DoCoMo, BSNL, Aircel, Tata Indicom and MTNL are the major operators in India. However, rural India still lacks strong infrastructure. India's public sector telecom company BSNL is the 7th largest telecom company in world. Telephony was introduced in India in 1882. The total number of telephones in the country stands at 1002.05 million, while the overall teledensity has increased to 79.67% as of 31 May 2015.〔(Highlights on Telecom Subscription Data as on 31 May 2015 )〕 and the total numbers of mobile phone subscribers have reached 975.78 million as of May 2015. The mobile tele-density had increased to 77.58% in May 2015.〔 In the wireless segment, 2.44 million subscribers were added in May 2015.〔 The wire line segment subscriber base stood at 26.27 million.〔 "Private operators hold 90.05 per cent of the wireless subscriber market share whereas BSNL and MTNL, the two PSU operators hold only 9.95 per cent market share," Trai said Indian telecom operators added a staggering 227.27 million wireless subscribers in the 12 months between March 2010 and March 2011 averaging at 18.94 million subscribers every month. To put this into perspective, China which currently possesses the world's largest telecommunications network added 119.2 million wireless subscribers during the same period - averaging 9.93 million subscribers every month (a little over half the number India was adding every month). So, while India might currently be second to China in the ''total'' number of mobile subscribers, India has been adding nearly twice as many subscribers ''every'' month until March 2011. Mobile teledensity increased by almost 18.4 percent from March 2010 and March 2011 (49.60% to 67.98%) while wireline subscriber numbers fell by a modest 2.2 million. This frenetic pace of monthly subscriber additions means that the Indian mobile subscriber base has shown a year on year growth of 43.23%. Subscriber number hit a peak in June 2012 but has since declined. The decline in telecom user base after June 2012 has been primarily due to the removal of inactive mobile telephone connections by service providers. ==Monthly mobile subscriber additions== The following table illustrates the gradual increase in monthly mobile subscriber additions(in millions) in India since January 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Telecommunications statistics in India」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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