Government to Gift Mobile Phones to Below Poverty Line Families

Bangalore: Seen as a good initiative, the UPA government is planning to give one mobile phone to every family living below the poverty line before the general elections of 2014, reports The Economic Times.

India has seen a tremendous growth in mobile users over the past few decades. India’s telecommunication network is the third largest in the world after China and USA. India’s mobile subscriber base is set to cross 890 million connections by the end of this year. The staggering growth of mobile connections has been driven by the expansion of mobile services in semi- urban and rural markets. But in 2009, the Indian mobile market was a bit different as the average revenue per user declined, according to reports by Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research. However in 2011, the Indian mobile market had got back on track as the average revenue per user had began to stabilize and by the end of 2016, the number of mobile connections might cross 900 million.