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INDIAN IT IN NUMBERS
(Updated December 6 2019)
Total no. of phone subscriptions: 1.217 billion (1217 million)
Mobiles 1196 million
Landlines: 21 million
Total no. of PCs: 250 million
Internet users: 580 million including mobile Internet 400 million
Broadband: 600 million
(wired: 20 million; wireless : 580 million) Broadband defined as >512 KBPS
TV owning houses: 200 million ( DTH 65m cable 105m)
DTH operators: 6; Private TV channel 900
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The first reporter to be conferred the Polaris IT Journalist of the Year
award in India , Anand was honoured by the UN at its first World Summit
of the Information Society in 2003 with the PANOS-GKP award for print
journalism for his sustained coverage of e-literacy campaigns in South
India. For 8 years, The Hindu's IT Consulting Editor, Anand is a doyen
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