Subscriber figures N51

Singapore mobile market breakdown is: leader SingTel with 1.54m subs., then M1 with 1.16+m and StarHub with 1.16-m.

Philippines mobile market breakdown is: leader Smart with 19m subs., followed by Globe with 12.5m subs. and Digitel well behind (launched in 03/03).

India teledensity (fixed lines) rose to 8.6% or 93m lines.

Virgin Mobile USA has 3m mobile customers.

India added more than 2m mobile subs. in January (1.27m GSM and 0.76m CDMA users).

Telefonica said Spain has 2.7m DSL subscribers.

Russia: mobile subs. increased to 78.5m at the end of January, up 5.5% in one month. The breakdown by operator is: MTS (37.2m), Vimpelcom (28.4m), MegaFon (14.1m), Uralsvyazinform (2.2m), SMARTS (1.9m) and Sibirtelecom (1m).

CDMA Development Group (CDG) reports CDMA subscriber base reached 240.2m in 12/04, of which 62m for CDMA 2000.