The Trai has released subscriber numbers for the month of October for mobile and for broadband and yet again mobile growth has been clocking 10 million a month taking the total wireless subscribers above 325 million.

Key highlights for the month of October are:

• 10.42 million Wireless Subscribers added in October 2008.
• Broadband subscribers reaches 5.05 million mark.
• Tele-density reaches 31.50% mark.

In the wireline segment, the subscriber base has decreased to 38.22 million in the month of October 2008 as against 38.35 million subscribers.

Another report released by Akamai which looks at the state of the internet had the following interesting statistics:

• India ranked No. 20 in terms of number of observed IP addresses with 2.6 million connections. In Q3, the growth in IP addresses was 23%.
• The percentage of Internet connections from India with speeds above 256 Kbps was at 74%, indicating gradual shift from dial-up speeds to high speed connectivity
• The percentage of Internet connections from India with speeds above 2 Mbps was at 5%, growing 16% compared to Q2

The above statistics are surely great for internet throught the growth % is over a very small base of subscribers for broadband. It may take India 3-5 years to achieve sizable (10-15 million) broadband (wired) subscribers. In the meanwhile 3G and Wimax auction and rollout and its impact would be closely followed by people from this space.

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