India's mobile phone market continued to expand at a robust pace with total connections estimated at 652.42 million as on Aug 1, thanks to 16.92 million new subscribers joining the network in July, official data showed Wednesday.
According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the wireless phone user base grew 2.66 percent to 652.42 million in July, from 635.51 million in the previous month.
With this the total telephone subscriber base in the country, both wireless and wireline connections combined, touched 688.38 million. The total telephone density reached 58.17 percent.
India had already overtaken the US last year and become the second largest telecom market in the world after China, which has 794.78 million connections. Leading institutions such as Gartner say the Indian mobile phone market will overtake that of China'a by 2013.
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