Mobile phones overtake fixed lines in India (Asia Times Online)
For the first time ever, the number of mobile connections in India have crossed fixed-line phones. At the end of September, there were 42.5 million mobile phone subscribers in India and 43.2 million fixed-line telephones. With almost 60,000 new mobile connections added daily, and accounting for the increase in fixed-line phones as well, Indian telecom observers had fixed October 18 as the D-day for mobiles overtaking landlines.
Classic case of tech leapfrogging!
Posted by Harshal at October 22, 2004 12:49 PMI am shocked that it took this long to happen! Looking at the snail's pace of land line connection delivery and the ease with which one could get a mobile, I thought this must have happened at least 2-3 years ago.
Posted by: Indian Rediff (Sai) on October 22, 2004 01:45 PMThe land-line providers had improved their service considerably in the past few years. You could get a phone within months (or even sooner) if you paid some lumpsum amount when applying ('tatkal' service) or could prove that you really needed a phone line for professional reasons. I know doctors could use this option. Maybe businesspeople too, I don't know. So the number of new land-line connections were increasing much faster than earlier but of course they couldn't keep up with the rate of adoption of mobile phones.
Also note that a upper middle class family will typically have only one land-line but will likely have 2-3 mobiles.
itwas inevitable.
why it did not happen sooner?
when i went for the mobile in the bearly days, i had to dial five times to get a connection.
and the mobile set cost 12k for a good set.
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