Mobile phone subscriber base crosses 261 million in March
05 May 2008
Sr. No. | Name of Circle/ State | Total Mobile phones as on | Growth rate (in %) during the year | |||||
31.03.2005 | 31.03.2006 | 31.03.2007 | 31.03.2008 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | ||
1 | Andaman & Nicobar | 10740 | 32587 | 44083 | 57846 | 203.42 | 35.28 | 31.22 |
2 | Andhra Pradesh | 4251239 | 7669812 | 13045794 | 20577632 | 80.41 | 70.09 | 57.73 |
3 | Assam | 287002 | 1128597 | 2331898 | 3913099 | 293.24 | 106.62 | 67.81 |
4 | Bihar | 1158534 | 3819442 | 5773370 | 10869459 | 229.68 | 51.16 | 88.27 |
5 | Chhattisgarh | 117951 | 191417 | 467294 | 701032 | 62.29 | 144.12 | 50.02 |
6 | Gujarat | 4239010 | 6775707 | 11163757 | 16968200 | 59.84 | 64.76 | 51.99 |
7 | Haryana | 1252666 | 2240298 | 4470606 | 6401457 | 78.84 | 99.55 | 43.19 |
8 | Himachal Pradesh | 354255 | 728578 | 1408876 | 2299811 | 105.66 | 93.37 | 63.24 |
9 | Jammu & Kashmir | 274821 | 1114652 | 1491315 | 2201912 | 305.59 | 33.79 | 47.65 |
10 | Jharkhand | 206372 | 403371 | 571217 | 640229 | 95.46 | 41.61 | 12.08 |
11 | Karnataka | 3913203 | 6890546 | 11382511 | 17043556 | 76.08 | 65.19 | 49.73 |
12 | Kerala | 2826014 | 5019928 | 7601981 | 11698216 | 77.63 | 51.44 | 53.88 |
13 | Madhya Pradesh | 1871031 | 3441142 | 6682326 | 12491306 | 83.92 | 94.19 | 86.93 |
14 | Maharashtra (-) Mumbai | 4657918 | 7417194 | 12788896 | 21079326 | 59.24 | 72.42 | 64.83 |
15 | North East | 146606 | 500935 | 1201518 | 2118532 | 241.69 | 139.86 | 76.32 |
16 | Orissa | 762996 | 2172208 | 2963261 | 5180156 | 184.69 | 36.42 | 74.81 |
17 | Punjab | 3763822 | 5461829 | 8364307 | 11715504 | 45.11 | 53.14 | 40.07 |
18 | Rajasthan | 1852881 | 4147323 | 8011334 | 13586738 | 123.83 | 93.17 | 69.59 |
19 | Tamil Nadu (-) Chennai | 3624160 | 5957147 | 10553554 | 18284050 | 64.37 | 77.16 | 73.25 |
20 | Uttarakhand | 156467 | 321779 | 544882 | 685565 | 105.65 | 69.33 | 25.82 |
21 | Uttar Pradesh | 4442433 | 9907365 | 17561905 | 28366704 | 123.02 | 77.26 | 61.52 |
22 | West Bengal (-) Kolkata | 895338 | 2732985 | 5040111 | 9381095 | 205.25 | 84.42 | 86.13 |
23 | Kolkata | 2019998 | 3502096 | 5030986 | 7844469 | 73.37 | 43.66 | 55.92 |
24 | Chennai | 2228248 | 3246131 | 4637124 | 7061200 | 45.68 | 42.85 | 52.28 |
25 | Delhi | 6073819 | 8869702 | 12083283 | 16282949 | 46.03 | 36.23 | 34.76 |
26 | Mumbai | 5501404 | 8116905 | 9877466 | 13631670 | 47.54 | 21.69 | 38.01 |
Total | 56888928 | 101809676 | 165093655 | 261081713 | 78.96 | 62.16 | 58.14 |
Responding a to parliamentary query, minister of communications and information technology A Raja said that private operators provide data service area wise only and not separately in Andaman & Nicobar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Chhattishgarh and NE-II which are included in West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and North East – I respectively. He said that Bharti Airtel provides landline figures separately for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.