Subscriber figures - 19/01/06

India started 2006 with 835,000 broadband subscribers.

Orange has 300k 3G subscribers in the UK and maintains its target for 1.5 million 3G users by the end of the year.

Colombia' s mobile phones doubled to 22m in 2005 (penetration of 50%), with Comcel (America Movil) having 13,8m; Telefonica with 6m and Colombia Movil with 2,1m. Fixed lines amounted to 7,8m in 2005.

Telefonica Moviles Venezuela has 6m customers, up 39% in 2005.

Brazil' mobile customer base reached 86,2m in 2005, up 31%. Vivo maintains its leadership with about 34,5% market share, ahead of Telecom Italia with 23,4% and Claro (America Movil) with 21,6% and Oi/ Telemar with 12%.

China has 111m Internet customers through about 50m connected PCs.

Russia: about 126m mobile customers as of December 31 (+5% on Nov. 05). Main operators are MTS with 60,3m users; Vimpelcom with 45,4m; Megafon with 22,8m; Uralsvyazinform with 3,7m; Tele2 with 3,1m; SMARTS with 2,8m and Sibirtelecom with 2m.

Turkcell recorded about 28m mobile subscribers as of Dec. 05, excluding figures of its subsidiaries.

Telekom Austria currently has 8,6m mobile users (+72%), and 574k DSL customer.

Ukraine: mobile subscriber base reached 30,4m, and mobile penetration currently is 64%. Kyivstar is the market leader with 46%; followed by UMC with 43%; Astelit with 8,8% and URS with less than 1%.