|
Advertisements:
CommunicationsTelephones - main lines in use World Ranking: 9
32.685 million (2011)
Telephones - mobile cellular World Ranking: 2
893.862 million (2011)
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 900 million in 2011, an overall teledensity of roughly 75%, and subscribership is currently growing more than 20 million per month; urban teledensity now exceeds 100% and rural teledensity is steadily growing 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 added in the form of fiber-optic cable and one of the world's largest domestic satellite systems, the Indian National Satellite system (INSAT), with 6 satellites supporting 33,000 very small aperture terminals (VSAT) 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 Mumbai (Bombay), South Africa - Far East (SAFE) with a landing site at Cochin, the i2i cable network linking to Singapore with landing sites at Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras), and Tata Indicom linking Singapore and Chennai (Madras), provide a significant increase in the bandwidth available for both voice and data traffic; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region); 9 gateway exchanges operating from Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai (Madras), Jalandhar, Kanpur, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, and Ernakulam 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; by 2011, more than 100 million homes had access to cable and satellite TV offering more than 700 TV channels; government controls AM radio with All India Radio operating domestic and external networks; news broadcasts via radio are limited to the All India Radio Network; since 2000, privately-owned FM stations have been permitted and their numbers have increased rapidly (2007) Internet country code
.in
Internet hosts World Ranking: 16
6.738 million (2010)
Internet users World Ranking: 6
61.338 million (2009)
Comments
Add a new comment: |
Advertisement
Members area
India (New Delhi):
GPS points from India (New Delhi)
Kankal State Of Andhra Pradesh
Bija State Of Punjab
Watrap State Of Tamil Nadu
Allahabad Uttar Pradesh
Parsakhera Uttar Pradesh
Kahawut Kashmir
Kabo Rajniwas India (general)
Kotada State Of Madhya Pradesh |
viewweather.com
sv.ViewWeather.com fr.ViewWeather.com da.ViewWeather.com de.ViewWeather.com es.ViewWeather.com |
www.carpati.org www.searchromania.net |
es.getamap.org fr.getamap.org de.getamap.org nl.getamap.org da.getamap.org www.getamap.org |
Links
Terms of use Privacy policy # 0.0206 sec |
contact AT getamap.net © 2006 - 2024 https://www.getamap.net/ |