There were close to 81 mobile subscriptions registered for every 100 people in 2023 in the south Asian country of India. It was a slight increase in comparison with the previous year. There was a continuous decrease in the number of mobile cellular subscriptions in the country between 2017 and 2022. During the presented period, the mobile subscription penetration rate reached its peak at 85.97 in 2017.
Number of mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in India from 2000 to 2023
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Mobile-cellular subscriptions refers to the number of subscriptions to a public mobile-telephone service that provide access to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) using cellular technology. It includes the number of postpaid subscriptions and the number of active prepaid accounts, divided by population and multiplied by 100
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