Keeping pace with a smart economic growth, tele-density (the number of telephone subscribers) surged to 17.16% or 189.33 million users in December 2006 with wireless subscribers registering the largest segment with 149.5 million. In 2006 alone, 65 million new telephone subscribers were added registering a growth of 50% from 11.43% in December 2005.

While wireless subscribers (which includes GSM, CDMA, and WLL-F) added 6.48 million users, predictably, there was a decline in the growth of wire-line subscribers by .08 million taking the total to 40.43 million subscribers