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Units 1980-81 1993-94
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Telecom Services
Direct exchange lines millions 2.2 8.0
Telephone waiting list millions 0.4 2.4
Telephone metered calls billion units 8.5 46.7
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In 1992, as part of its Eighth 5-year Plan, the government estimated that it would spend US $ 22.5 billion on telecom equipment by the year 2000, to help pay for 26.5 million new lines. Demand is growing at the rate of 13% per year and as on 31st March 1995, the waiting list for new phone connections had reached 2.15 million, despite a 22% growth in new telephone connections in 1994-95. As on November 30, 1995, there were 20,455 exchanges in the network with a total capacity of 12.84 million lines. Of this, 10.6 million lines were working.
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