According to the Department of Telecommunications of India, there were 346.9 million wireless telephones in India as of December 2008. Using a total population of 1,147,995,904 (July 2008 estimate), the penetration rate of cell phones was 30.2%. For comparison purposes, the penetration rate as of December 2007 was only 20.7%. In other words, the number of mobile phones in India increased by 113 million in 12 months, an astounding 48.5% growth rate.
You may also want to compare India’s mobile phone penetration to China’s mobile phone penetration.
Good site. Good info on India. Can you lead me to more info on Indian phone stats?
It’s interesting that China’s growth has been linear (20% linear growth over 4 years, or roughly 5% per year). Whereas India’s is 10.5% in one year. It had taken China two years to go from a 20.7% penetration to a 30.2% penetration, whereas India managed that in one year. Very interesting.