Subscriber figures - 13/11/05

India' s COAI reported a record subscriber growth of more than 2m mobile subscribers during the month of October'05 to a total of 53m. Bharti has 28% market share, BSNL 23,6%, Hutchison 19,2% and Idea 12%. All other operators have market share below 5,5%. Among all circles, in Oct'05, Circle A had 35% market share, Circle B had 32,5% and Metros had 24,5%. Category C circles continued to witness the highest rate of growth, followed by Category B circles, Category A circles and Metros.

UMC( Ukraine) reached a mobile subscriber base of 11,5m in October, up 5,3% on Sept, while its competitor Kyivstar rose its subscriber base to 11,7m.

BT has 6,2m broadband users, up 89%.

Swisscom currently has 1m ADSL lines, up 30%.

Colombia announced 18,3m mobile users: Comcel had 11,4m; Telefonica Moviles 5,2m and Colombia Movil 1,8m.

Portugal has 1,1m broadband customers.

Telecom Italia now has 6.4m DSL customers in Europe, of which 5,2m in Italy,