Interesting Statistics About Mobile Usage in Delhi

- With the population at 13,800,000 (census 2001) persons, there are 1.038 phones per person

- Between June and July this year, 532,033 new mobile phone and WLL connections were issued

- An average GSM user talks for 211 minutes per month while he makes the calls, while he talks 261 minutes per month while receiving calls. On an average, the user talks for 471 minutes or almost 8 hours on the phone every month

- An average CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile phone user spends 217 minutes per month on making calls, while he spends 244 minutes per month on receiving calls

- In the metro cities, a GSM user sends 51 SMSes per month while a CDMA user sends 24

- The average outgoing rate (rental and call charges) for GSM users is Rs 1.37 per minute while for CDMA users it is Rs 1.04 per minute. That's an average monthly charge of Rs 289 for GSM, and Rs 219 for CDMA users

- Both GSM and CDMA post-paid users spent almost three times as much time on the phone as their pre-paid counterparts

- There are 6 mobile phone and WLL operators--Vodafone Essar, Idea, Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Tata Teleservices and MTNL--out of which, Airtel has 3,344,686 users. That's 25.17% of the total users in Delhi

- Within their networks, Reliance had the maximum number of successfully connected calls at 99.77% and the best voice quality. Market leader Airtel had the maximum delay in access to its service at 13.60 seconds

- While most mobile phone operators refund customers within 30 days after dispute resolution, Vodafone Essar (formerly Hutch Essar) had the best record with refunds being disbursed within 15 days of dispute resolution


Source: indian Express