The ascendency of India as an economic world power

Indian mobile phone market is expanding at a fast pace. India is expected to emerge as the second biggest market for mobile phone within a few years. Reliance Communications is one of the important players in Indian mobile phone industry. It is trying to expand its user base and it has awarded a 400 million dollar contract to Alcatel-Lucent. Reliance Communications has both CDMA and GSM network and it is expanding its coverage in the rural areas and also in small towns.

India eNews reported:

'In our endeavour to build a best-in-class infrastructure in the country, offering better overall performance and a higher quality of service to many million Indians, our wireless network will cater to customers across 20,000 towns and 600,000 villages upon completion of the current phase of expansion,' Anil Ambani, chairman, RCOM, said in a statement.

'The expansion of our wireless CDMA and GSM network would further enhance our competitive edge in effectively participating in the achievement of our national tele-density targets of 500 million by 2010, thereby contributing to economic growth,' Ambani added.

I would surely love to see more villages coming under mobile phone network. It can really contribute in the development of Indian economy.