THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFROMATION TECHNOLOGY (DR. SHAKEEL AHMAD)
(a) & The district wise details of landline consumers and
waiting list as on July 31st, 2004 in Andhra Pradesh, Uttat
Pradesh (East) and Uttar Praadesh (West) are given in Annexure-I,
II & III respectively. The total No. of mobile phone consumers in
these states are as given below;-
(i) Andhra Praadesh 594557
(ii) U.P. (East) 431057
(iii) U.P. (West) 326536
No waiting list is being maintained for mobile consumers.
(c) BSNL has planned the deployment of wireless based systems
(CDMA and Cordect) on a large scale to clear waiting for basic
phones since most of the waiting list in the far flug rural
areas. BSNL plans to provide a total of 100 Lakh connections
including mobile phones during the Year 2004-05. The targets for
provision of telephones (including mobile phones) in the three
circles are as under:-
Andhra Pradesh UP (East) UP (West)
639700 Lines 586600 Lines 362500 Lines