Indian mobile phone market is expected to touch 348 million by 2010, according to a research by The Diffusion Group. That’s not far off the mark from the government’s prediction of 250 million telephone connections (of which cellular could be about 200 million) by end 2007. According to TDG’s latest report, “India Mobile Market: The Next Land Run for Mobile Vendors?“, India will become the the number two mobile subscriber market in the world by 2010, after China, of course, which has already crossed 400 million subscribers.
Key findings from this report include:
— All inhabited areas (and hence the entire population) of India should be covered by mobile networks by the end of 2009, from 45-50 per cent coverage today.
— The number of total mobile subscribers is expected to increase from just over 100 million today to over 348 million by year-end 2010.
— Despite what the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India terms a “quality of service crisis”, fierce price wars among India mobile operators have caused near exponential growth in mobile subscribers since 2003.
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