Synopsis
India continues to be one of the fastest growing major telecom markets in the world. Sweeping reforms introduced by successive Indian governments over the last decade or so dramatically changed the nature of telecommunications in this country. The mobile sector has grown from around 10 million subscribers in 2002 to almost 350 million by 2008. While there were signs that the rate and effectiveness of regulatory reform had stalled, during the 2007/08 period growth in the mobile sector continued at a very healthy rate. By contrast fixed-line services, which had grown strongly for a while, were suddenly experiencing zero and negative growth. And the Internet was still finding its way. In this report we look at the fixed-line, mobile and Internet segments of the market in India and we provide scenario forecasts for each of the market segments.