Telecom
Indian telecom is the third largest network in the world.
India is the second largest wireless market in the world with the subscriber base of nearly 250 million with average growth rate of over 40% in respect of subscribers. India has got National tele density of 22% with Rural teledensity of 7% and Urban tele density of 54%
In India there are 9 million internet and 2.5 million broadband subscribers. For every 100 inhibitants in India there are 3.5 fixed telephone lines,18.5 Mobile subscribers, 0.8 internet subscibers and 0.22 Broad band subscribers. Telecom sector is expected to garner $35 bn by 2010.The country is poised to nearly double its subscriber base to 500 million by 2010.Country need 35,00,000 telecom towers by 2010, against the present availability of 125,000 tower.During the 11th Plan Period the sector would attract investment to the tune of 77 billion.
Market share of cellular operators in India:
Subscribers base(India) of mobile phones as on May 2008
Group Company |
Total Subscribers |
Airtel(GSM) |
66825935 |
Reliance (CDMA + GSM) |
48696295 |
Vodafone Essar(GSM) |
47466853 |
BSNL(GSM) |
36997418 |
IDEA(GSM) |
26140643 |
Tata (CDMA) |
25476062 |
Aircel(GSM) |
11491986 |
Spice(GSM) |
4497675 |
MTNL(GSM + WLL) |
3350437 |
BPL(GSM) |
1331261 |
HFCL (CDMA) |
326150 |
Shyam (CDMA) |
108396 |
Total (All India) |
272709111 |
Tele density
The tele-density of India at about 23 per cent coupled with its billion-plus population offers immense growth potential for the telecom services sector in the coming years when compared with growth expectations from most developed markets with tele-densities of over 70-80%.
The attraction of the Indian growth potential seems higher when it is compared even with its Asian neighbours such as Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines etc, that have higher tele-densities but much smaller population base.
The strong growth expectations in the Indian telecom sector compared to near matured markets in developed countries is attracting foreign direct investments as well as institutional investments including significant private equity (PE) inflow in the country.
India will be the largest market for WiMAX by 2012
The number of WiMAX subscribers in the Asia-pacific region would grow from 230,000 in 2007 to 33.9 million by 2012, of which 46.7 per cent would be from India, and the region's revenues would grow from 58 million dollar in 2007 to 5.46 billion dollar by that period at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 148 per cent.
India's Wimax market will be followed by Japan, Pakistan and China and Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent, Samsung, Nortel and Cisco will be the key players to supply the Wimax equipments to the region.
Tentative Growth in Telecom Towers
