operator- subscribers

M6 Mobile (MVNO in France) has reached 1m subscribers, a year before the estimated date. It now aims at 1.5m users by 2008-end. Iusacell (Mexico) had 3.9m mobile subscribers at June-end. LG Telecom (S. Korea) had 7.5m mobile users at June-end. Verizon...

Vimpelcom (Russia) had 38.6m mobile subscribers (or 27% market share). France: 50m mobile subscribers, of which 5.7m are 3G. APAC: according to the CDMA Development Group (CDG), CDMA 2000 claims 161 million 3G subscribers (2.75 and 3G subscribers) in...

Hong Kong would reach 2m broadband subscribers at year-end. Argentina mobile user base reached 35.6m at the end of May (+42%). Vietnam has nearly 30m mobile subscribers, with 6 mobile operators: Vinaphone, MobiFone, Viettel, S-Fone, EVN Telecom and HT...

Hungary had 10.5m mobile subscribers in May. T-Mobile is the market leader with over 44% market share. Etisalat Egypt has neared 1m customers since its launch, two months ago. du (UAE) announced that it reached 500k customers. PLDT (Indonesia) had 27m...

Pakistan is one of the hottest mobile markets in the world. It has reached 58.4m (+50%) mobile subscribers in April 07. Brazil got a mobile subscriber base of 106.1 m in May, highlighting a continuous net additions slide from higher levels in 2004 and...

Japan had 26.5m broadband subscribers at the end of March, up 680k in a quarter. 8.8m customers are FTTH users. Mobile penetration in Saudi Arabia reached 89% by the end of March, with 21.5m customers. Serbia has 7.2m mobile customers (+1.8m) and penetration...

The UK had 2.25m unbundled local loops in May, 4.2m wholesale line rentals in use, and 6.2m carrier pre-select numbers. Ukraine had 51m+ mobile subscribers at the end of April. In Philippines, Smart and Piltel (both from PLDT) have a combined subscriber...

France currently has 13.5m broadband subscribers. The EMEA region had over 89m mobile handset shipments in 1Q07, up 9%. Ecuador had a mobile subscriber base of 9m at hte end of April. Conecel is the largest operator with 66% market share. Over 200m customers...

Idea Cellular currently has 15m subscribers in India, while Spice Telecom has a 3m subscriber base. Vodacom (S. Africa) has increased by 28% its mobile subscriber base to over 30m. According to ROA group, Japan will increase its mobile penetration to...

Chile : almost 14m mobile GSM subscribers at the end of March, accounting for 80% of the total market. Movistar is the market leader with 42%, followed by Entel with 38% and Claro with 20%. Latin America had 327m mobile users, according to 3G Americas....