As per TRAI statistics for September 2011, the country has reached a teledensity of 75.48%. It is 166.01 % in urban areas which means that a good number of customers are having more than 1 or 2 telephones. It is only 36.40 % in rural area which is very low.

The total Wireline (landline) connections are 3.33 crore out of which 2.36 crore ( 71.08% market share) belong to BSNL.

In the wireless sector Bharti Airtel is the leader with 17.27 crore connections ( 19.78% market share), followed by Reliance with 14.70 crore ( 16.84%), Vodafone with 14.49 crore (16.60%), Idea with 10.01 crore ( 11.47%) and BSNL with 9.57 crore connections( 10.16% market share.)

In total connections Bharti Airtel again leads with 17.61 crore connections ( 19.42%) followed by Reliance with 14.83 crore (!6.36%), Vodafone with 14.49 crore ( 15.99%) BSNL with 11.94 crore ( 13.17%) and Idea with 9.01 crore ( 11.05 %).

In this scenario, BSNL has to work very very hard to increase its connections and improve the share market. In addition to the change in the anti-PSU policy of the government and mismanagement, the workers have to be very hard-working for improvement and better service.