{"id":115,"date":"2009-04-06T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:43:28","slug":"mobile-phone-penetration-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Phone Penetration in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.gov.in\/network\/2008\/networkstatus_Dec2008.pdf\">Department of Telecommunications of India<\/a>, there were 346.9 million wireless telephones in India as of December 2008. Using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/india\/population.html\">total population of 1,147,995,904<\/a> (July 2008 estimate), the penetration rate of cell phones was 30.2%. For comparison purposes, the penetration rate as of December 2007 was only 20.7%. In other words, the number of mobile phones in India increased by 113 million in 12 months, an astounding 48.5% growth rate.<\/p>\n<p>You may also want to compare India\u2019s mobile phone penetration to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/04\/mobile-phone-adoption-in-china\/\">China\u2019s mobile phone penetration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Mobile Phone Penetration in India' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Mobile Phone Penetration in India' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Mobile Phone Penetration in India' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Mobile Phone Penetration in India' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Department of Telecommunications of India, there were 346.9 million wireless telephones in India as of December 2008. Using a total population of 1,147,995,904 (July 2008 estimate), the penetration rate of cell phones was 30.2%. For comparison purposes, the penetration rate as of December 2007 was only 20.7%. In other words, the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Mobile Phone Penetration in India' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Mobile Phone Penetration in India' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Mobile Phone Penetration in India' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Mobile Phone Penetration in India' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/mobile-phone-penetration-in-india\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}