Telecom Services

Submitted by mdash on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 13:22

Northeastern Region comprising the eight states is being covered by BSNL in four telephone circle as given below:

 

Sl. No.

Circle no

Name of state

1.

Assam

Assam

2.

NE-1

Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura

3.

NE-2

Nagaland, Manpur, Arunachal Prsdesh

 

 

Network status: The status of the telecom facilities as in December 31, 2007 in each of the state of the North East Region is shown in the following table:

 

Sl. No.

Name of the state

Population as on December 31, 2007 (in thousand)

Telephone as on 31, 2007 (Wired+WLL+CMTS)

Teledensity as on December 31, 2007

1.

Assam

29371

1113469

3.79

2.

Meghalaya

2527

156990

6.21

3.

Mizoram

965

116013

12.2

4.

Tripura

3485

193821

5.56

NE-1

6977

466824

6.69

5.

Arunachal Pradesh

1142

156092

13.67

6.

Manipur

2490

125504

5.04

7.

Nagaland

2089

191409

9.16

NE-2

5721

473005

8.27

8.

Sikkim

541

92680

17.12

9.

NE Region

42611

2145978

5.04

10.

BSNL

1105727

68516318

6.20

 

Sl. No.

Name of the state

Telephone exchange

Total capacity

Total DELs

Waiting list

VPTs

1.

Assam

597

1571993

113469

8822

22163

2.

Meghalaya

117

204371

156990

0

2931

3.

Mizoram

92

140633

116013

21

608

4.

Tripura

122

255392

193821

415

856

 NE-1

331

600396

466824

436

4395

5.

Arunachal Pradesh

104

190178

156092

33

1011

6.

Manipur

55

149694

125504

4422

1646

7.

Nagaland

62

195253

191409

400

1100

 NE-2

221

535125

473005

4855

3757

8.

Sikkim

47

121760

92680

0

374

9.

BSNL

1196

2829274

2145978

14113

30689

 

Sl. No.

Name of the circle

Wireline

WLL

Cellular

Total

1.

Assam

436132

92658

584679

77148

2.

North East-1

207484

38230

221110

466824

3.

North East-2

130399

29930

312676

473005

Source: Telecom Ministry, Govt of India