According to Gartner, a global information technology research and advisory firm, the revenue from India’s telecom Sector will cross $30 billion by 2013.
The total mobile services revenue is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5 percent during 2009-2013 to exceed $30 billion. At the same time the telecom subscriber base is expected to cross 770 million connections by 2013, growing at a CAGR of 14.3 percent from 452 million in 2009.
The factors supporting this increase are:
- increased focus of operators on rural areas
- increased adoption of value Added Services
- availability of cheaper handsets
- entry of consumer durable and electronic companies into the mobile handset segment
The number of prepaid subscribers is expected to cross 740 million ( about 96 percent) by 2013. At the same time the postpaid subscriber base will exceed 29 million subscribers by 2013, growing 2.5 percent from 2008. Gartner also predicted that the churn rate (the rate at which a subscriber switches from one operator to another) will cross 59 percent in 2013 from 53 percent currently.
Source: ET
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