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SOUTH ASIA: POWER AND COMMUNICATIONS
| Country | Electric power | telephone main Lines (a) | International telecommunications (a) | ||||||||||
| Consumption per capita | Transmission and distribution losses % of output | per 1,000 people | In largest City per 1,000 people | Waiting list thousand | Waiting time years | Per Employee | Revenue per line $ | Cost of local call $per 3 minutes | Mobile phones (a) | Out going traffic minutes per subscriber | Cost of call to U.S. $ per 3 minutes | ||
| 1998 | 1998 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | ||
| Bangladesh | 81 | 16 | 3 | 24 | 172.0 | 4.4 | 23.0 | 591 | 0.03 | 1 | 104 | 6.00 | |
| India | 384 | 18 | 27 | 131 | 3680.0 | 0.9 | 63 | 138 | 0.01 | 2 | 18 | 4.20 | |
| Nepal | 47 | 23 | 11 | - | 275.0 | 5.9 | 54 | 268 | 0.01 | 0 | 99 | - | |
| Pakistan | 337 | 25 | 22 | 62 | 298.0 | 1.5 | 51 | 349 | 0.02 | 2 | 29 | - | |
| Sri Lanka | 244 | 19 | 36 | 245 | 225.0 | 1.6 | 61 | 461 | 0.05 | 12 | 67 | 4.49 | |
Note a=
Data are from the International Telecommunication Unions (ITU )
world Telecommunication Development Report 2000' . Please cite the ITU
for third party use of these data.
Sources :- The data on electricity consumption and losses are from
the IEA'S Energy statistics and balance of Non-OECD Countries 1997-98.
The IEA'S energy; statistics of OELD Countries 1997-98, and the UN statistics
Division's Energy statistics year book the telecommunications
data are from the International Telecommunications union's (ITU) world
Telecommunication Development Report 2000. except for the data on
telephone traffic, which are from "Direction of traffice, 1999",
published by TeleGraphy and the ITU.