Rural vs Urban Subscribers-Growth between March 2009 and March 2010

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Rural vs Urban Subscribers-Growth between March 2009 and March 2010

August 01, 2010

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While the urban telecom market in India is saturating fast, rural telecom penetration has increased considerably. It grew from 14.93 per cent in March 2009 to 24.29 per cent in March 2010.
The overall telecom subscriber base increased by 45 per cent from 429.72 million as of March 2009 to 621.28 million at the end of March 2010. The share of rural in the total subscriber base increased from 28 per cent in March 2009 to 32.3 per cent in March 2010. Meanwhile, the share of urban subscribers came down from 71.5 per cent to 67.67 per cent.
The total rural telecom subscriber base stood at 200.81 million as of March 2010, marking a 64 per cent increase over March 2009. The growth in rural telecom subscribers is dominated by the wireless segment. As of March 2010, the total rural mobile subscribers stood at 190.88 million, constituting 95 per cent of the total rural subscriber base.
Circle-wise, Delhi had the highest urban teledensity at 172.49 per cent and Himachal Pradesh had the highest rural teledensity at 52.53 per cent. Bharti Airtel accounted for the maximum rural penetration with 48.09 million rural subscribers, followed by Vodafone Essar with 36.79 million.

Rural vs urban teledensity (as of March 2010) (%)
Quarter ended	Rural teledensity	Urban teledensity
Mar-09	15	Mar-00
Jun-09	17	95
Sep-09	18	103
Dec-09	21	111
Mar-10	24	120

Rural vs urban subscribers (as of March 2010) (million)
Quarter ended	Rural subscribers	Urban subscribers
Mar-09	122	308
Jun-09	136	329
Sep-09	152	357
Dec-09	175	388
Mar-10	201	420

Circle-wise rural vs urban mobile teledensity (as of March 2010) (%)
Circle	Rural mobile	Total rural	Urban mobile	Total urban
	teledensity	teledensity	teledensity	teledensity
Andhra Pradesh	23	24	136	57
Assam	18	18	92	30
Bihar	14	15	123	30
Delhi	–	–	–	172
Gujarat	32	34	89	58
Haryana	38	39	94	60
Himachal Pradesh	48	53	288	79
Jammu & Kashmir	26	27	107	50
Karnataka	23	24	132	68
Kerala	36	45	172	80
Madhya Pradesh	15	15	86	35
Maharashtra (including Mumbai)	31	32	99	67
Northeast	24	25	92	43
Orissa	20	21	128	39
Punjab	39	42	115	75
Rajasthan	30	31	115	53
Tamil Nadu (including Chennai)	36	38	115	84
Uttar Pradesh (East and West)	18	18	100	37
West Bengal (including Kolkata)	24	24	103	49
All India	23	24	112	53

Operator-wise rural subscribers as of March 2010 (million)
Operator	Rural mobile subscribers	Rural wireline subscribers	Total rural subscribers
Bharti Airtel	48	–	48
Vodafone Essar	37	–	37
Idea Cellular	30	–	30
BSNL	25	10	35
RCOM	21.25	–	21
Aircel	14	–	14
TTSL	13	0	14
Unitech	1	–	1
SSTL	0.54	0	1
HFCL	0.001	–	0
Loop Mobile	–	–	–
S Tel	0.27	–	0
MTNL	–	–	–
Videocon Telecom	–	–	–
Etisalat DB	–	–	–
Total	190.88	10	201