This has pushed the tele-density to almost 20 per cent. The total numbers of telephone subscribers have reached 225.21 million at the end of June as compared to 218.05 million in May.

The overall tele-density has increased to 19.86 per cent in June end, compared to 19.26 per cent in May end. In the wireless segment, 7.34 million subscribers have been added in June, while 6.57 million subscribers were added in May registering an increase of 11.72 per cent.

The total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & WLL (F)) base is 185.13 million at the end of June, a TRAI statement said. The wireline subscriber base stood at 40.09 million at the end of June, compared to 40.26 million at the end of May, a marginal decrease.

The gross addition in telephone subscribers during first quarter of 2007-08 is 19.35 million as compared to 13.10 million during corresponding quarter of 2006-07 registering a growth of 47.75 per cent.

Total Broadband connections in the country have reached 2.52 million by the end of June, compared to 2.46 by May, registering a growth of 2.44 per cent, an addition of 0.06 million connections only.

India is the world's fastest-growing mobile services market, with more than 6 million subscribers signing up each month till now, lured by tariffs as low as one US cent a minute and the extension of networks to rural areas. China has 500 million wireless subscribers.