India all set to have more mobile phone users than the US

Published by admin on March 27th, 2008 | Tagged Business, News

According to a study by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or TRAI, India will soon leave behind the US to become the second largest mobile phone market in the world after China.

Towards the end of Feb 2008, China stood at the number one position with 540.5 million mobile phone subscribers, the US was at the second position with 256 million mobile phone subscribers and India was third with 250.93 million mobile subscribers.

India’s monthly addition of wireless connections is the highest in the world. In India, every month around 8 to 9 million wireless connections are being added, as compared to the US where the monthly additions are only 2 to 3 million. China adds about 6 to 7 million wireless subscribers every month.

India added 8.53 million wireless subscribers in Feb 2008.By April this year, India will move ahead of the US to occupy the second spot.

The total numbers of connections, both wireless and fixed phone, are going to cross 300 million by the month of April.