Subscriber figures - 8 June 2005

Arcor's ADSL subscriber base base rose 200% to 510,000, and the number of ISDN customers grew by 83% to 712,000.

KDDI (Japan) reached about 20m mobile subscribers in its “au” unit.

DoCoMo posted 49.2m users in May, of which 12.9m in 3G FOMA.

Vodafone KK lost almost 40k users and had 15m subscribers at the end of May, of which 1m 3G users.

Vimpelcom's (Russia) subscriber base amounted to 33.2m, of which 29m in Russia.

Hutchison (HK) now has about 325,000 customers for its 3G network, and could reach 500k by the end of the year.

UMC (Ukraine) had 8.9m users as of June 1, up 7%.

Vmobile (Nigeria) had 2.8m users at the end of March in Nigeria.

Mobile subscriptions across Africa rose 47% to 76.5m in 2004.