India's overall tele-density, counted with M2M cellular mobile connections, at the end of August 2026 was:

The correct answer is 95.07 per cent. Tele-density expresses the number of telephone connections for every hundred people, and for the country as a whole, with machine-to-machine cellular connections counted in, it stood at that level. Option A is wrong because that is the rural tele-density, which remains far below the national average and marks the gap policy is trying to close. Option B is wrong because that is the same national measure calculated after leaving machine-to-machine connections out, a narrower reading of the same indicator. Option D is wrong because that is the urban tele-density, which crosses a hundred because many town dwellers hold more than one connection. The wireless share of the national figure was 91.69 per cent and the wireline share 3.39 per cent.