India's telecommunication network is the second largest in the world by number of telephone users (both fixed and mobile phone) with 1171.80 million subscribers as on 31 Oct 2020. It has one of the lowest call tariffs in the world enabled by mega telecom operators and hyper-competition among them. As on 31 Oct 2020, India has the world's second-largest Internet user-base with 734.82 million broadband internet subscribers in the country. As of 31 December 2018, India had a population of 130 crore people (1.3 billion), 123 crore (1.23 billion) Aadhaar digital biometric identity cards, 121 crore (1.21 billion) mobile phones, 44.6 crore (446 million) smartphones, 56 crore (560 million or 43% of total population) internet users up from 481 million people (35% of the country's total population) in December 2017, and 51 per cent growth in e-commerce.