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Media Stats: compare key data on British Virgin Islands & India

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STAT British Virgin Islands India HISTORY
Broadcast media 1 Doordarshan, India's public TV network, operates about 20 national, regional, and local services; a large and increasing number of privately owned TV stations are distributed by cable and satellite service providers; by 2011, more than 100 million homes had access to cable and satellite TV offering more than 700 TV channels; government controls AM radio with All India Radio operating domestic and external networks; news broadcasts via radio are limited to the All India Radio Network; since 2000, privately-owned FM stations have been permitted and their numbers have increased rapidly
Internet > IP addresses per capita 460.25
Ranked 67th. 16 times more than India
28.78
Ranked 162nd.
Internet > ISP 16
Ranked 42nd.
43
Ranked 16th. 3 times more than British Virgin Islands
Internet > Internet Service Providers 16
Ranked 60th.
43
Ranked 27th. 3 times more than British Virgin Islands
Internet > Users 4,000
Ranked 168th.
80 million
Ranked 3rd. 20000 times more than British Virgin Islands

Internet users 4,000
Ranked 1st.
61.34 million
Ranked 6th. 15335 times more than British Virgin Islands
Radio broadcast stations AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 AM 153, FM 91, shortwave 68
Radios 9,000
Ranked 208th.
116 million
Ranked 4th. 12889 times more than British Virgin Islands
Telecommunications > Telephone > Fixed telephone lines 12,268
Ranked 190th.
31.08 million
Ranked 10th. 2533 times more than British Virgin Islands

Telephone system > General assessment good overall telephone service supported by recent deregulation and liberalization of telecommunications laws and policies, India has emerged as one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world; total telephone subscribership base exceeded 900 million in 2011, an overall teledensity of roughly 75%, and subscribership is currently growing more than 20 million per month; urban teledensity now exceeds 100% and rural teledensity is steadily growing
Telephone system > International country code - 1-284; connected via submarine cable to Bermuda; the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) submarine cable provides connectivity to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean country code - 91; a number of major international submarine cable systems, including Sea-Me-We-3 with landing sites at Cochin and Mumbai (Bombay), Sea-Me-We-4 with a landing site at Chennai, Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) with a landing site at Mumbai (Bombay), South Africa - Far East (SAFE) with a landing site at Cochin, the i2i cable network linking to Singapore with landing sites at Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras), and Tata Indicom linking Singapore and Chennai (Madras), provide a significant increase in the bandwidth available for both voice and data traffic; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region); 9 gateway exchanges operating from Mumbai (Bombay), New Delhi, Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai (Madras), Jalandhar, Kanpur, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, and Ernakulam
Telephones > Main lines in use 26,800
Ranked 179th.
32.69 million
Ranked 10th. 1220 times more than British Virgin Islands

Telephones > Mobile cellular 46,800
Ranked 194th.
893.86 million
Ranked 2nd. 19100 times more than British Virgin Islands

Television broadcast stations 1
Ranked 68th.
562
Ranked 2nd. 562 times more than British Virgin Islands
Televisions 4,000
Ranked 195th.
63 million
Ranked 4th. 15750 times more than British Virgin Islands
Internet > Hosts 465
Ranked 160th.
2.71 million
Ranked 24th. 5822 times more than British Virgin Islands

Newspapers > Daily newspapers > Number of titles 1
Ranked 146th.
1,874
Ranked 1st. 1874 times more than British Virgin Islands

Newspapers > Daily newspapers > Total average circulation 0.0
Ranked 170th.
79.24 million
Ranked 2nd.

Cinema > Percentage of feature films co-produced 0.0
Ranked 50th.
0.0
Ranked 42nd.

Telephone system > Domestic fixed line connections exceed 80 per 100 persons and mobile cellular subscribership is roughly 150 per 100 persons mobile cellular service introduced in 1994 and organized nationwide into four metropolitan areas and 19 telecom circles each with multiple private service providers and one or more state-owned service providers; in recent years significant trunk capacity added in the form of fiber-optic cable and one of the world's largest domestic satellite systems, the Indian National Satellite system (INSAT), with 6 satellites supporting 33,000 very small aperture terminals (VSAT)
Internet country code .vg .in
Internet hosts None None
Cinema > Percentage of fully nationally produced feature films 0.0
Ranked 52nd.
100%
Ranked 2nd.

Internet > IP addresses 14,336
Ranked 180th.
34.69 million
Ranked 15th. 2420 times more than British Virgin Islands
Telecommunications > Telephone > Fixed telephone lines per thousand people 393.86
Ranked 42nd. 16 times more than India
25.13
Ranked 161st.

Internet > TLD .vg .in
Internet > Livejournal users 150
Ranked 98th.
1,602
Ranked 24th. 11 times more than British Virgin Islands
Internet > Linux web servers 8
Ranked 54th.
25
Ranked 41st. 3 times more than British Virgin Islands
Website defacements 3
Ranked 95th.
119
Ranked 16th. 40 times more than British Virgin Islands
Internet > IP addresses (share) 0.0
Ranked 112th.
0.8
Ranked 14th.
Newspapers > Non-daily newspapers > Total average circulation 3,500
Ranked 65th.
77.48 million
Ranked 5th. 22136 times more than British Virgin Islands

Internet > Hosts > Per capita 16.48 per 1,000 people
Ranked 83th. 7 times more than India
2.36 per 1,000 people
Ranked 128th.

Newspapers > Non-daily newspapers > Number of titles 8
Ranked 76th.
5,351
Ranked 3rd. 669 times more than British Virgin Islands

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; http://www.iana.org/numbers; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; Internet World Stats, June 30, 2010; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; http://www.iana.org/numbers; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; LiveJournal; Netcraft Linux server survey; attrition.org; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables

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