Mobile use in India is booming, as it becomes the second largest mobile market in the world.
Indian mobile phone operators added a net 7.34 million mobile subscribers in August, or a 0.86% growth over the previous month, taking the total connections in the world’s second-biggest mobile phone market to 865.71 million.
With nearly 900 million telephone connections at the end of August 2011, of which 866 million were mobile connections of which 70% are active subscribers.
Mobile tele-density in urban areas was 158, whereas rural areas had just 35. There is a still ample growth opportunity for mobile service providers in rural areas.
Mobile phone additions in India have sharply fallen in recent months after rising at a monthly average of 19 million last year, with more than 70% of the population now having access to them.
By comparison, China, the world’s largest mobile phone market, saw a 1.17% monthly increase in total number of mobile subscribers to 927.26 million in August.