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According to the latest forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media, there will be five hundred million mobile subscriptions in India by the end of September 2010.
Whilst it took 13 years for India to gain its first 250 million mobile subscriptions, Informa forecasts that the country’s second 250 million subscribers will be added over a 30-month period thanks to such factors as the increased competition in India’s mobile market, low tariffs and cheap handsets.
“The bottom line is with a penetration rate of 26%, India is a hugely attractive investment destination, and will continue to be so for many years. Indeed, our forecasts suggest that the active subscription rate will remain well below 50% until 2010,” says Informa Principal Analyst, Nick Jotischky.
Informa’s forecasts also suggest that India will soon enter a second phase of growth. The Indian regulator is set to award 3G licences to India’s largest operators in 2009, a move that suggests a rapid take-up of data services. Informa predicts there will be 7.5 million W-CDMA connections by the end of 2010, a figure that will leap to over 120 million by the end of 2013.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
