India: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 25.518 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 2 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 1,011.054 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 81 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: supported by recent deregulation and liberalization of telecommunications laws and policies, India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing telecom markets in the world; total telephone subscribership base exceeded 1 billion in 2015, an overall teledensi domestic: mobile cellular service introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan areas and 19 telecom circles, each with multiple private service providers and one or more state-owned service providers; in recent years significant trunk capacity international: country code - 91; a number of major international submarine cable systems, including SEA-ME-WE-3 with landing sites at Cochin and Mumbai (Bombay), SEA-ME-WE-4 with a landing site at Chennai, Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) with a landing site at (2015) |
Broadcast media | Doordarshan, India's public TV network, operates about 20 national, regional, and local services; a large and increasing number of privately owned TV stations are distributed by cable and satellite service providers; in 2015, more than 230 million homes h (2015) |
Internet country code | .in |
Internet users | total: 325.441 million percent of population: 26% (July 2015 est.) |