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Mobile Tarrif : In Saarc Countries

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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

9th February, 2005

Press Release No.14/2005

Telecom Subscribers Continue the Growth Trend during Jan, 2005.

Total Mobile Subscriber base touches about 5 crores.

The subscriber base for telephony services continued to maintain its growth during Jan.2005 also with around 2.16 million subscribers being added. Thus, a total of 18.74 millions subscribers have been added during the first 10 months of financial year 2004-2005.

Mobile Service :

For mobile segment 1.77 million subscribers have been added during January 2005. The mobile additions consist of 1.27 million GSM subscribers and 0.50 million CDMA subscribers as against 1.42 million GSM and 0.53 million CDMA subscribers in the previous month. During first 10 months of the financial year 2004-05 about 16.17 million mobile subscribers have been added. The total mobile subscribers at the end of January 2005 are around 5 crores.

Mobile Tarrif :

A comparison of tariff plans for mobile service of SAARC Countries revealed that the mobile tariffs in India are lowest as compared to other countries as shown in the table below:

Countries

Per Minute Cellular Tariffs

(in US Cents)

1. India 3-4

2. Bangladesh 6.5

3. Nepal 6.5

4. Pakistan 8.4

5. Sri Lanka 11.0

6. Bhutan 11.4

7. Maldives 14.4

With the implementation of the new ADC regime from February 2005, the subscriber growth is likely to receive a boost due to the further decline in tariffs as most of the mobile operators have announced reduction in tariffs.

Fixed subscribers

In the fixed segment a total of 0.39 million subscribers were added during January 2005. With this the total subscriber base of fixed lines have crossed 45 million.

Teledensity:

The gross subscriber base consisting of fixed as well as mobile has become 94.92 million at the end of January 2005. The teledensity at the end of January 2005 has reached 8.80 compared to 8.62 at the end of previous month.

(S.N. Gupta)

Advisor (CN)

source : http://www.trai.gov.in/pr9feb05.htm

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we are years ahead in telecom then all saarc countries. but comparing to eastern

countries we are way behind. though we are playing catch up very fast .and i expect big things in the next two years. :clap:

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Yes true!! Infrastructure development lags behind in many Indian cities... even in India's Silicon City Bangalore!!!

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A. Look at the volume diff!

B. Look at the people we are comparing ourselves with.

Things we should really look at are:

1. Technology adopted and how it fares with the rest of the WESTERN WORLD - not Bhutan & Nepal!

2. Teledensity

3. Rate of growth

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Is there such a comparison of India with other asian countries like China, Korea, Japan, Singapore Etc.....

That will be more interesting to see....

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I still don't understand why mobile rates are so high in India!

Consider:

1. BSNL - probably had implemented the world's worst landline/switching technology

2. BSNL was grossly overstaffed

3. BSNL was grossly mismanaged

4. BSNL had landlines (dug trenches across the lenght and breadth of the country)

5. BSNL charged 33paisa/min (Rs. 1.00/3min)

6. BSNL (formerly DOT) was very very profitable

Consider:

1. Mobiles use much better technologies that are more efficient, smart and powerful

2. They have less but more efficiently managed manpower

3. The have stronger management

4. The dont have to dig trenches to connect customers - each tower servers thousands

5. Charge 1-2 bucks a min (with more mobiles than landlines mobiles around)

6. They're even more profitable

So why cant mobiles charge 15 paisa/min (ADC, interconnectivity and all other charges built-in)? Even if we consider the devaluation of the Rupee vs the Dollar.... still way to much I say!

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Telecome charges are way too high in India. In Dubai, all calls within Dubai from landline to landline are free. Only landline to cell and vice versa and inter city calls are charged.

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I hope we will surpass china's teledensity.

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