India - Mobile Communications - Market Overview

Synopsis

Growth in India’s mobile sector, from a humble start in the mid-1990s, has really picked up pace in recent years, aided by higher subscriber volumes, lower tariffs and falling handset prices. Home to a clutch of global operators working with local companies, India had around 290 million mobile subscribers (including GSM and CDMA services) by mid-2008. And the market was growing at an annual rate of over 50%. While the ARPU has been steadily declining as competing operators offer cheaper tariffs the usage levels have been high thus slowing the decline in ARPU. By 2008 there was a major push to take mobile services into the poorer and rural areas of the country. This report provides an overview of India’s mobile market.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Mobile communications
  
  • 2.1 Overview of India’s mobile market
    
    • 2.1.1 Market background
      
    • 2.1.2 Mobile statistics
      
    • 2.1.3 Mobile market segments
      
    • 2.1.4 Pricing and marketing strategies
      
  • 2.2 Regulatory issues
    
    • 2.2.1 New Telecommunications Policy – 1999 (NTP-99)
      
    • 2.2.2 Year 2009
      
    • 2.2.3 Year 2008
      
    • 2.2.4 Year 2007
      
    • 2.2.5 Year 2006
      
    • 2.2.6 Year 2005
      
    • 2.2.7 Year 2004
      
• 3. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Mobile subscribers and annual change – 2006 - 2009
• Table 2 – Mobile subscribers (GSM and CDMA) and annual change – 2002 - 2008
• Table 3 – GSM mobile subscribers and annual change – 1997 - 2008
• Table 4 – WLL technology-based subscribers – June 2006
• Table 5 – Mobile services revenue – 1996 - 2008; 2010; 2012
• Table 6 – Mobile ARPU (GSM and CDMA) and annual change – 2005 - 2008
• Table 7 – Mobile subscribers and market share by region/circle – 2008