Out of every ten people owning a subscriber identity module (SIM) card in Mumbai, four don’t use it at all, while countrywide, nearly a third of registered users are inactive.
Which beggars the question, how real is India’s telecom success story?
Data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) show that out of 811.59 million registered subscribers as of March 31, 2011, only 70.72% or 573.97 million are active.
