Broadband connections in India rose by a paltry 2.67% to 9.24 million. India's broadband connections have been increasing at this rather slow pace for a while now, and the hope is that with Reliance Industries having acquired Broadband Wireless Access spectrum across the country in the recently concluded auctions, the company will push for increasing the broadband user base and bringing down cost of access devices (computers and laptops). This number probably doesn't include USB based EVDO connections. India has 36.39 million wireline connections, on the decline. Overall teledensity is 55.38%, with 653.92 million telecom connections, most of them in urban areas. Wireless/Mobile India added 16.39 million wireless connections, around 11 million of them GSM in May 2010; a little lower than the 16.90 Million connections reported for April. Important to note that apart from Uninor, it is likely that most telecom operators churn out subscribers after 6 months of no usage. That means that there are likely to be instances if double-counting. For May 2010: Telco with max additions (Incumbents): Bharti Airtel, 3 million Telco with lowest additions (Incumbents): MTNL; 39,811 Telco with max additions (New Telcos): Videocon; 705,471 Telco with lowest additions (New Telcos): Uninor; -8,722, read why Circle with max additions: UP (East); 1,825,111 Circle with lowest additions: North East; 136,911 Notes: - Five circles added more than a million connections each: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, U.P.(E) - Tamil Nadu has the most connections at 56,501,807, up almost a million connections for the month, at 1.78%.…
