India, the world’s second-most populous country, with over 1.4 billion people, has witnessed a remarkable transformation in its telecommunications landscape over the past few decades.
The country’s mobile coverage, which has expanded exponentially in recent years, has become one of the largest and most diverse in the world.
Out of 6,44,131 villages in the country, around 6,22,840 villages are having mobile coverage and out of these, 6,14,564 villages are covered with 4G mobile connectivity as in September 2024, India’s Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, Dr. Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, informed this in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament) this December.
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