Mobile phone subscriber base crosses 261 million in March

India's total mobile subscriber base in March 2008 to 261.08 million. The details of mobile phone subscriber base, including fixed-line WLL during the last three years from March 2005, when the subscriber base was 56.88 million, till March 2008 along with the growth rate, state-wise, year-wise are:

Sr. No.	Name of Circle/ State	Total Mobile phones as on				Growth rate (in %) during the year
		31.03.2005	31.03.2006	31.03.2007	31.03.2008	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
1	Andaman & Nicobar	10740	32587	44083	57846	203.42	35.28	31.22
2	Andhra Pradesh	4251239	7669812	13045794	20577632	80.41	70.09	57.73
3	Assam	287002	1128597	2331898	3913099	293.24	106.62	67.81
4	Bihar	1158534	3819442	5773370	10869459	229.68	51.16	88.27
5	Chhattisgarh	117951	191417	467294	701032	62.29	144.12	50.02
6	Gujarat	4239010	6775707	11163757	16968200	59.84	64.76	51.99
7	Haryana	1252666	2240298	4470606	6401457	78.84	99.55	43.19
8	Himachal Pradesh	354255	728578	1408876	2299811	105.66	93.37	63.24
9	Jammu & Kashmir	274821	1114652	1491315	2201912	305.59	33.79	47.65
10	Jharkhand	206372	403371	571217	640229	95.46	41.61	12.08
11	Karnataka	3913203	6890546	11382511	17043556	76.08	65.19	49.73
12	Kerala	2826014	5019928	7601981	11698216	77.63	51.44	53.88
13	Madhya Pradesh	1871031	3441142	6682326	12491306	83.92	94.19	86.93
14	Maharashtra (-) Mumbai	4657918	7417194	12788896	21079326	59.24	72.42	64.83
15	North East	146606	500935	1201518	2118532	241.69	139.86	76.32
16	Orissa	762996	2172208	2963261	5180156	184.69	36.42	74.81
17	Punjab	3763822	5461829	8364307	11715504	45.11	53.14	40.07
18	Rajasthan	1852881	4147323	8011334	13586738	123.83	93.17	69.59
19	Tamil Nadu (-) Chennai	3624160	5957147	10553554	18284050	64.37	77.16	73.25
20	Uttarakhand	156467	321779	544882	685565	105.65	69.33	25.82
21	Uttar Pradesh	4442433	9907365	17561905	28366704	123.02	77.26	61.52
22	West Bengal (-) Kolkata	895338	2732985	5040111	9381095	205.25	84.42	86.13
23	Kolkata	2019998	3502096	5030986	7844469	73.37	43.66	55.92
24	Chennai	2228248	3246131	4637124	7061200	45.68	42.85	52.28
25	Delhi	6073819	8869702	12083283	16282949	46.03	36.23	34.76
26	Mumbai	5501404	8116905	9877466	13631670	47.54	21.69	38.01
	Total	56888928	101809676	165093655	261081713	78.96	62.16	58.14

Responding a to parliamentary query, minister of  communications and information technology A Raja said that private operators provide data service area wise only and not separately in Andaman & Nicobar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Chhattishgarh and NE-II which are included in West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and North East – I respectively. He said that Bharti Airtel provides landline figures separately for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.