Airtel slips to third spot in new user additions in Oct

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Somewhere in all this hoopla, no mention is being made of disconnects. If there are 50 crore mobile connections in India, and with a large part of the country not even able to afford mobile services, what do these numbers indicate?
 
oh well. every one seems to be able to afford a mobile handset these days. at least the people who are somehow working. i have seen labor class people carrying mobile phones. though i still think there would be a large number of people in india who still cannot afford food to survive let alone a mobile phone. :|
 
And that's what I find perplexing. A tele density of 44% - largely made up of mobile connections - in a country where a vast majority lives in villages without electricity - something doesn't add up.
 
well the number would stop one time or the other. i do not see it pass 80 crore mark. i can safely say that india would have at least 30 crore people who cannot afford a mobile phone. or maybe i am wrong. most people tend to have multiple mobile phones. that number too is unlikely to cross 5-10 crores. some people would have a sim card in their laptops or desktops. that too would be a pretty small number. some nations do have 100%+ tele-density. but those are mostly developed countries in European region.
 
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