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Tele-density will be 22% in 2 years: Maran
By agencies
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Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 19:30 IST
NEW DELHI:Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran today said the country's tele-density would be up at 22 percent from the current nine percent by 2007 with 250 million fixed and wireless telephones.
"By that time (2007) the entire country shall be carpeted by telecom network and all the villages shall be connected by phone," Maran said.
He said the Internet connections would increase from 5.45 million to 18 million by 2007. Broadband connections will go up to nine million in 2007. To enable faster expansion of wireless telephony, and other services, the required spectrum will be made available to the operators.
"With increasing competition, we expect that the tariff rates will fall further, benefiting the consumers," Maran said.
The Minister said India has crossed the 100 million mark in terms of number of phones and has become the fifth largest network in the world after China, USA, Japan and Germany.