Telephone, wireless and wireline subscriber base in country falls: TRAI

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released figures as part of its Telecom Subscription Data as on December 31, 2012. The figures reveal that the number of telephone subscribers in the country continue to decline. This time it has decreased to 895.51 million at the end of December 2012 from 921.47 million at the end of November 2012 – registering a negative growth rate of -2.82 percent. This fall pattern continued to show in the share of urban subscribers, which fell to 62.20 percent from 62.70 percent. The share of rural subscribers though, rose to 37.80 percent in December 2012. 

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