India's telecom subscriber base has swelled to 134.33 million at the end of February 2006, taking teledensity to 12.28 per cent compared to 11.88 per cent a month ago.
According to telecom regulator TRAI, around 4.53 million subscribers were added during the month under review, with most of the additions taking place in the mobile segment -- 4.28 million compared to 0.25 million in the fixed line space.
With this, the total number of mobile subscribers in the country has gone up to 84.88 million and that of fixed line to around 49.45 million.
A total of 35.92 millions subscribers were added during the first 11 months of financial year 2005-06, a TRAI release said. Of this, 32.66 million were mobile subscribers.
The present minimum STD rates are about 80 per cent lower than the tariff that prevailed in December, 2003 and about 60 per cent less as compared to rates as of December, 2005.
Total broadband connections (256 Kbps download and above speed) in the country have touched around 10.50 lakhs (1.05 million) only as against a target of 30 lakh (3 million) for December, 2005 in the Broadband Policy-2004.
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