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Mobile phones the talk ofIndia as landlines lose out
Mobile phone users have outstripped traditional landline connections in India, according to the industry, marking a major lifestyle and communications milestone for the rapidly changing country, reports the The Associated Press. A survey conducted by India's leading telecoms magazine, Voice and Data, found 45 million people possess mobile phones in India compared to 44 million who have landlines. The survey has predicted that at least 110 million new mobile phone subscribers will be added in India during the next three years. The country's emergence as one of the fastest growing mobile phone markets in the world comes despite the fact that a large number of India's billion-plus population remain out of range of a cellular network. Industry players, who say the mobile phone boom was beyond their most optmistic predictions, attribute the surge in sales to the fact the country lags far behind the rest of the world in conventional, fixed-line telephony. Introducing cellphone networks, they say, is cheaper and faster than stringing up telephone wires. The world now has 1.5 billion mobile phone subscribers. |
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