India is set to become the world’s second largest wireless network market after China , overtaking the U.S. to the third slot, by April 2008. Penetration of Cell phones in India is beyond our imagination.

India with the total mobile subscriber base crossing the 26-crore mark, India will have over 30-crore phone subscribers in April , according to telecom regulator TRAI.

India’s monthly wireless subscriber addition is the highest in the world, adding 8-9 million wireless users a month, compared with China’s 6-7 million and only 2-3 million new subscribers in the United States.

China tops with over 540 million wireless customers in February 2008, followed by the US with 260.50 million and India with 250.93 million.

• Subscribers base to cross 300 million in April 2008.
• Wireless subscribers base reaches 250 million mark.
• India to become second largest wireless network in the world by April 2008.
• Wireless Subscribers addition is 8.53 million in February 2008.

There was huge speculation that BlackBerry mobiles in India will be banned, since Indian home ministry expressed national security threat over the fact that e-mails being received through the BlackBerry service difficult to be intercepted.

Putting to rest for all the speculation , the Department of Telecom on Friday ruled out imposing a ban on the BlackBerry mobiles service in India.

Blackberry services, which have over 400,000 users in India, are provided by Bharti Airtel, Vodafone-Essar and Reliance Communications, few weeks back government did not permit Tata Teleservices to launch a BlackBerry service .

DoT met all the mobile operators offering BlackBerry services on Friday in a bid to find to a resolution to concerns raised by the security agencies.