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Map of India If you often call India from UK, USA or Canada (or other 40+ countries) you may consider phonecards from 1st4Phonecards (formerly UK Phonecards).  1st4Phonecards provides one of the cheapest highest quality phonecards to India (called 'calling cards' in some countries).  If you can not find cards you are interested in you may want to look at Nobelcom (based in USA) calling cards. Calling India using phone cards you may save up to 80% on your phone bill.

 
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India Telecommunication*

Telephones - main lines in use:
 27.7 million (October 2000)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
 2.93 million (November 2000)
Telephone system:
 general assessment: mediocre service; local and long distance service provided throughout all regions of the country, with services primarily concentrated in the urban areas; major objective is to continue to expand and modernize long-distance network to keep pace with rapidly growing number of local subscriber lines; steady improvement is taking place with the recent admission of private and private-public investors, but, with telephone density at about two for each 100 persons and a waiting list of over 2 million, demand for main line telephone service will not be satisfied for a very long time
domestic: local service is provided by microwave radio relay and coaxial cable, with open wire and obsolete electromechanical and manual switchboard systems still in use in rural areas; starting in the 1980s, a substantial amount of digital switch gear has been introduced for local and long-distance service; long-distance traffic is carried mostly by coaxial cable and low-capacity microwave radio relay; since 1985 significant trunk capacity has been added in the form of fiber-optic cable and a domestic satellite system with 254 earth stations; mobile cellular service is provided in four metropolitan cities
international: satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region); nine gateway exchanges operating from Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai (Madras), Jalandhar, Kanpur, Gaidhinagar, Hyderabad, and Ernakulam; 4 submarine cables - LOCOM linking Chennai (Madras) to Penang; Indo-UAE-Gulf cable linking Mumbai (Bombay) to Al Fujayrah, UAE; India-SEA-ME-WE-3, SEA-ME-WE-2 with landing sites at Cochin and Mumbai (Bombay); Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) with landing site at Mumbai (Bombay) (2000)
Radio broadcast stations:
 AM 153, FM 91, shortwave 68 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:
 562 (of which 82 stations have 1 kW or greater power and 480 stations have less than 1 kW of power) (1997)
Internet country code:
 .in
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
 43 (2000)
Internet users:
 7 million (2002)

 

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