Subscriber figures - 26/02/06

China said it passed 400m mobile subscribers in early February 2006.

Orange UK targets SMEs in the UK with a new service called Orange Landline for Business. The target is of course to offer bundles of mobile and fixed services.

Movistar Argentina, a unit of Spain' s Telefonica Moviles, saw its client base rise 45% last year to over 8m.

Maxis (Malaysia) had a total mobile subscriber base of 7.9m.

NII operating under Nextel brand in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru, had a total subscriber base of 2.5m.

Tele Sudeste Celular (Brazil) had 4.7m mobile subscribers at the end of 2005.

Celular CRT (Brazil) had 3.4m mobile subscribers at the end of 2005.

Tele Leste Celular (Brazil) had 1.5m mobile subscribers at the end of 2005.

Tele Centro Oeste Celular (Brazil) had 6.8m mobile subscribers at the end of 2005.

Telesp Celular (Brazil) had 20.2m mobile subscribers at the end of 2005.