India-270 million 3G subscribers by 2013′

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India likely to have 270 million 3G subscribers by 2013′

New Delhi: India is likely to have 270 million 3G subscribers by 2013, becoming the leading 3G market
among emerging countries. Research agency Strategy Analytics’ VP, Wireless Practice, David A Kerr said,
“In terms of subscribers, India is going to be the largest market for 3G users among all emerging
markets…India could have 270 million users subscribing to 3G services by 2013.”
Currently, the country’s overall mobile subscriber base is around 290 million.
The research agency informed that 3G subscribers would account for over one third of the total wireless
subscribers by 2013. In the beginning, most of the subscribers would be from metro and ‘A’ category cities,
with the user base mostly comprising of enterprises and business customers. “India has 700 million
untapped customers and it is very much possible to have 270 million 3G subscribers in next five years,”
revealed Kerr. “At the initial stage corporate and enterprise users as well as tech-savvy young generation
would drive this market,” he added.
The guidelines for 3G services have been issued, and the Government hopes to introduce the services by
December.