New Delhi: India now has the second largest telephone network in the world, next to China. Telephony in India has witnessed phenomenal growth in the last decade.
According to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, teledensity has risen from 7.04 percent to 73.07 per cent and average call rates dropped to 47 paise from Rs 2.89 in less than a decade and these figures look more impressive when plotted on a graph (see below).
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