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Telephones - main lines in use:
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49.75 million (2005) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
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44 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
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166.1 million (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
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145 mobile cellular telephones in use per 1000 capita |
Telephone system:
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general assessment: recent deregulation and liberalization of telecommunications laws and policies have prompted rapid growth; local and long distance service provided throughout all regions of the country, with services primarily concentrated in the urban areas; steady improvement is taking place with the recent admission of private and private-public investors, but combined fixed and mobile telephone density remains low at about 20 for each 100 persons nationwide and much lower for persons in rural areas; fastest growth is in cellular service with modest growth in fixed lines
domestic: mobile cellular service (both CDMA and GSM) introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan areas and 19 telecom circles each with about three private service providers and one state-owned service provider; in recent years significant trunk capacity added in the form of fiber-optic cable and one of the world's largest domestic satellite systems, the Indian National Satellite system (INSAT), with 6 satellites supporting 33,000 very small aperture terminals (VSAT)
international: country code - 91; a number of major international submarine cable systems, including Sea-Me-We-3 with landing sites at Cochin and Mumbai (Bombay), Sea-Me-We-4 with a landing site at Chennai, Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) with a landing site at Mumbai (Bombay), South Africa - Far East (SAFE) with a landing site at Cochin, the i2i cable network linking to Singapore with landing sites at Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras), and Tata Indicom linking Singapore and Chennai (Madras), provide a significant increase in the bandwidth available for both voice and data traffic; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region); 9 gateway exchanges operating from Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai (Madras), Jalandhar, Kanpur, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, and Ernakulam |
Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 153, FM 91, shortwave 68 (1998) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
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7,503,242 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
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12,615,340 people per FM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
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16,882,293 people per shortwave Radio broadcast station |
Television broadcast stations:
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562 (1997) |
Television broadcast stations density:
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2,042,698 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
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.in |
Internet hosts:
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2.306 million (2007) |
Internet users:
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60 million (2005) |
Internet users - density:
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53 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
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void |
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