
India: Mobile phone subscribers, per 100 people
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India |
Mobile phone subscribers, per 100 people |
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Latest value | 83.6 |
Reference | 2020 |
Measure | subscribers per 100 people |
Source | The International Telecommunication Union |
For that indicator, we provide data for India from 1960 to 2020. The average value for India during that period was 19.81 subscribers per 100 people with a minimum of 0 subscribers per 100 people in 1960 and a maximum of 87.32 subscribers per 100 people in 2017.
The latest value from 2020 is 83.6 subscribers per 100 people. For comparison, the world average in 2020 based on 197
countries is 109.32 subscribers per 100 people.
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Definition: Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service that provide access to the PSTN using cellular technology. The indicator includes (and is split into) the number of postpaid subscriptions, and the number of active prepaid accounts (i.e. that have been used during the last three months). The indicator applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions that offer voice communications. It excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging and telemetry services.