Categories: Broadband

Broadband density in India

A recent report says,

Every 200th Punjabi has a broadband connection. Punjab has 106,892 broadband connections.
Punjab circle also ranks among the top five in the country in per capita mobile connections.
Haryana minus Gurgaon and Faridabad has 40,212 broadband connections (as of Dec 31, 2007)
Jammu & Kashmir has about 10,000 broadband connections
Himachal Pradesh has about 7,000 broadband connections
In 2005 BSNL had 47.69% of the market share, in 2007 it shrunk to 31.29%. The pie has become larger and other private players have come in. Stil, BSNL has the largest share of the broadband subscriber base.
Andhra Pradesh has 234,099 broadband connections.
Karnataka has 331,937 broadband connections.
Maharashtra + Goa has 654,308 broadband connections.
Delhi + Gurgaon + Faridabad + Noida + Gaziabad has 409,507 broadband connections.
Broadband penetration per 1000 citizens (Dataquest-IDC e-Gov Survey 2008): Delhi (84), Goa (28), Maharashtra (20)

Total broadband subscribers base has reached 3.47 million by the end of February 2008 as compared to 3.24 million by the end of January 2008.

Update on broadband subscribers:

Jan 2008: 3.24 million
Feb 2008: 3.47 million
April 2008: 4.01 million
May 2008: 4.15 million

BG Mahesh

Internet application ideator and implementor. Been there and done that since early 1990s. I like to present data to the common man in the simplest manner on the internet.

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Varun says:

April 4, 2008 at 9:33 pm

Its amazing that what has hitherto been an 'agriculture centric' zone this far, is growing multifold in terms of technology.