| Communications | India |
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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37.75 million (2009) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
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33 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
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362.3 million (2009) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
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311 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 35 for each 100 persons nationwide and much lower for persons in rural areas; extremely rapid growth in cellular service with modest declines in fixed lines
domestic: mobile cellular service introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan areas and 19 telecom circles each with multiple private service providers and one or more state-owned service providers; 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 (2008) |
Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 153, FM 91, shortwave 68 (1998) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
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7,621,433 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
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12,814,058 people per FM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
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17,148,224 people per shortwave Radio broadcast station |
Television broadcast stations:
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562 (1997) |
Television broadcast stations density:
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2,074,875 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
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.in |
Internet hosts:
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2.707 million (2008) |
Internet users:
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80 million (2007) |
Internet users - density:
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69 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
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void |
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