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Articles tagged with: World Record and Bharti
Record result in Q4 for India - but Q1 09 looks set to beat it
India is the world's second largest mobile market behind China and it has seen extraordinary levels of growth in recent quarters. The first three quarters of 2008 all saw net additions in excess of 25m, and Q4 08 went one better with a gain of 31.58m, an all-time Indian and world record. The number of connections in India stood at 346.77m at the end of 2008 with annual growth of 48.5%, compared to 60.8% in 2007. more
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Ten new connections in India by the time you've read this headline
The Indian set a new world record for organic monthly net additions in September with an uplift of 9.99m, beating its own previous best of 9.90m. This is equivalent to 3.9 new connections every second in September. The total market reached 310.62m with a penetration rate of 27.5%, which should mean that there is plenty of potential for further growth. more
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Subscriber Barriers Broken in India
India's mobile market passed three milestones in September: the CDMA customer base broke through 50 million, GSM surpassed 150 million and the total market by consequence broke the 200 million barrier. With 205.3 million customers, India is still considerably short of the USA - the world's second largest mobile market with 243.3 million customers at the end of Q2 - but with proportionate growth at 66.8% in the 12 months to the end of September (compared to the USA's 10.4% at the end of June), India may well overtake the USA by the end of 2008. Given that India's penetration rate was just 18.4% at the end of September while the USA's was approximately 82%, an eventual change in the ranking is inevitable. more