New Delhi: India’s subscriber growth rate kept on rising at the same time as the telecommunication industry got involved in spectrum clashes and other technology disputes.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said that the December-2007 goal to achieve 250 million subscribers has been accomplished before the due date.

After this great success, TRAI told that it is not difficult for the industry to achieve the 500 million target, by next three years (2010).

According to a TRAI release, “A total of 7.64 million telephone connections have been added during September 2007. Keeping the growth projections on conservative scale, the subscriber number has already crossed 250 million, the target for December 2007. Thus the expectation of 500 million by 2010 is by no means ambitious.”

The mission to cover up 15% of telecommunication density by 2010, as predicted in New Telecom Plan 1999 was also accomplished four years before its due date in September 2006.

Now the telecommunication density has arrived at 21.85%.

On the other hand, the wireless section has added up 7.8 million subscribers in September as compared to 8.31 million additions in August. The overall wireless subscribers’ base arrived at 209.08 million.

The wire line segment saw a decrease in its subscriber base to 39.58 million in September as against 39.73 million subscribers in August.

Around 42.8 million telephone subscribers have been added up in the first half (from April to September), as against 29.7 million in the same priod of the previous year.