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India Becomes Mobile-Phone Market With a Billion Subscribers
- China is the only other country with more mobile phone users
- With 12 operators, India still has among the cheapest tariffs
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India’s number of mobile-phone subscribers topped 1 billion, becoming the only country after China to cross that milestone.
The number of subscribers in October reached 1.03 billion, up 0.7 percent from the preceding month, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in a statement on Wednesday.