MUMBAI: Broadband

Total Broadband subscriber base has increased to 6.80 million in July-09 from 6.62 million in June-09, thereby showing a growth rate of 2.7 %.

• Total Telephone subscriber base reaches 479.04 Million
  > Wireless subscription reaches 441.66 Million
  > Wireline subscription declines to 37.41 Million
  
• 14.38 Million new additions in wireless
  
• Wireline subscription declines by 0.13 Million
  
• Overall Tele-density reaches 41.08
  
• Broadband subscription is 6.80 million
  

The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 479.07 Million at the end of July-09 from a level of 464.82 Million in June-2009, thereby registering a growth rate of 3.06%. With this, the overall Tele-density in India reaches 41.08

Wireless Segment (GSM, CDMA & FWP)

Wireless subscriber base increased from 427.28 Million in June-2009 to 441.66 Million at the end of July-09 at a monthly growth rate of 3.36%. Wireless Tele-density stands at 37.87.

Wireline Segment

Wireline subscriber base declined from 37.54 Million in June-2009 to 37.41 Million at the end of July-09. BSNL/MTNL, the PSU operators own 85.99% of the Market share. While major Private Wireline service providers have increased their subscriber base, BSNL/MTNL lost 0.17 Million subscribers in the month of July-09. Wireline teledensity is 3.21 . Detailed statistics is at Annexure-II.

MUMBAI: The World Television Premi?re of Slumdog Crorepati on MAX on August 15 at 8 PM has garnered a rating of 4.3 according to Television Audience Measurement (TAM). Not surprisingly MAX has surpassed all competing channels to emerge as the number one channel in its genre. Slumdog Crorepati is the top rated movie amongst all Hindi movie channels since Jan 2007.

According to TAM, a staggering 21.3 million people watched Slumdog Crorepati on MAX firming up the channel?s weekly reach at 62.77% and taking the GRP?s to 200 in the C&S 4+ HSM markets.

Speaking on the astounding success of Slumdog Crorepati on the channel, Sneha Rajani, Executive Vice President and Business Head, MAX commented ?We have always strived to touch lives and entertain audiences through our films. MAX arguably has the best reservoir of movies of all genres for wholesome entertainment. This Independence Day we thought it appropriate to premier Slumdog Crorepati, a film which has had stupendous critical acclaim and commercial success all over the world. With this telecast we have been able to showcase this wonderful story to the masses all over India.?

Slumdog Crorepati on MAX was pitted against Star Plus?s premier movie Billu Barber and Ghajini on NDTV Imagine which got ratings of 1.9 and 0.8 respectively. Slumdog Crorepati has also achieved an astounding rating of 10.4 in Chattisgarh, 10.2 in Rajasthan 1mn+ and 6.4 in Mumbai.

MUMBAI: The lair a nation feared; that brewed one of the longest running armed conflicts in Asia; that carried out several civilian massacres, suicide bombings and high profile attacks, came to an unceremonious end as the Sri Lankan army defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at battleground Puthukudiyiruppu. NewsX became the first channel to gain exclusive access to the venue of the last battleground with LTTE, where the self proclaimed leader Prabhakaran was gunned down. NewsX exclusive Tigers? Lair will bring to its viewers exclusive footage of the battle zone between Sri Lankan army and LTTE, some very startling revelations and an exclusive interview with the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapakse on August 19, 2009 at 8 PM only on NewsX.

NewsX reached another milestone in showcasing its editorial leadership by successfully becoming the first channel in India to get an exclusive right to admission into the last battle ground of the LTTE by the Sri Lankan government.

Tigers? Lair, a one hour investigative show, is all set to reveal startling facts about the mini-submarines indigenously manufactured by the LTTE and used by Soosai, who used to head the naval wing of the Tamil Tigers- Sea Tigers. These stunning visuals will be backed by an exclusive interview with the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapakse, in which he has made startling revelations of international NGOs providing technical know-how for LTTE‘s weapons factories and assisting in the import of lethal weapons. Watch out for exclusive visuals of the weapons procured by LTTE from Russia, China and other countries along with visuals of LTTE‘s weapon making factory in Puthukudiyiruppu only on NewsX.

In the one hour riveting programme, the NewsX team of V K Shashikumar ? Editor, News & Programming - and Video Journalist, Chintan Devpuri take you through the battle field to witness some of the astonishing revelations.

MUMBAI: After the tight slap exchanged by Nitin and Himanshu on the last episode of Dadagiri, the contestants are getting prepared to face the Dadas who only seem to getting more cruel as the days pass by. The 7th episode of DADAGIRI this Saturday, 22nd, August, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. only on UTV Bindass is full of action packed stunts, completely whacked out dares and full throttle entertainment.

On day 7 of the boot camp, the fighters are woken up at 5.30 AM and allotted merely 4 minutes to get ready with breakfast and any extra time taken is to be added to their dare, which was to take place next in Vishal?s Macho Zone. Once there the contestants realize the magnitude of fear that would engulf most on this dare. The contestants have to hang upside down like a monkey, cross a bridge and collect ribbons at the end of it, return to the start and tie the ribbons at their respective colored sections.

The already crazy dare just gets worse with the contestants having to bear with water gushing at them with enormous force and they have to use every inch of Physical and mental strength to pull this off. The bottom three are sent away to Sonali? playground to face another of her crazy dares.

At Sonali?s ?Playground?, the bottom 3 contestants have to pass 6 levels of the limbo game without touching the stick. This they have to do after filling their stomachs after each level with extremely disgusting concoctions named juices. One of them would be the contestants having to chew 5 paans, spit it into a glass and drink the mixture while another one would be a combination of chicken sausages + ruhafza + tomato juice + chocolate sauce. The one who comes out of this disgusting combination of juices and the limbo game in one piece has the privilege of not having to face the eliminations!!!