Subscriber figures - 25/03/06

Dutch broadband subscribers passed the four million mark at the end of 2005 (household penetration over 58%).

Australia: Vodafone reports 78,000 3G subscribers since 10/05.

UK: MVNO Tesco (UK supermarket group) has over 1m mobile subscribers.

China Netcom currently has 11.5m broadband subscribers.

Optimus (Portugal) had about 2.3m mobile users (+11%) at the end of 2005.

TMN (Portugal) is the market leader with 5.3m mobile subscribers.

Sirius Satellite Radio ended 2005 with 3.3m subscribers and expects to end 2006 with more than 6m subscribers.

China Mobile added 4.2m new users in February, bringing the total at 255m.

China Unicom added 1.2m new subscribers to a total of 130.3m (of which 97m are GSM).

Brazil had 88m mobile phones in operation by end-February.

MTN (S. Africa) has reported 23.2m African GSM subscribers by year-end 2005 (+73%), of which 10m in S. Africa.

The MVNO market in the U.S. drove about $2bn in revenue in 2005 and had 5.5m customers.

3 Italy had more than 5.5m 3G subscribers at the end of 2005.

Chunghwa Telecom currently has 313k 3G subscribers and targets 1m by year-end. Its total subscriber base stood at 8.2m.

Turkcell (Turkey) currently has 28m mobile subscribers, in Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Moldova and Azerbaijan.