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New Delhi June 19 The country's telecom subscriber base has further expanded with the net addition of 6.3 million new telephone users during May 2007.

While the addition in the GSM and CDMA segments was five million and 1.5 million respectively, the fixed line segment declined by 0.2 million.

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh circles added more than 4.5 lakh subscribers each.

As a result, the total number of telephones in the country is now more than 218.06 million, having grown 46.9 per cent between June 2006 and May 2007.

The overall teledensity improved further to 19.25 per cent in May 2007.

The growth of broadband connections improved further and at the end of April 2007, about 2.38 million broadband connections had been provided.

Coverage of broadband connectivity by public sector service providers has reached 1,039 cities.

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