Subscriber figures - 01/04/06

Warid Telecom had more than 3m subscribers in Pakistan in 10 months.

MTS (Russia) had a subscriber base of 60.3m mobile subscribers as of February 28, 2006.

Costa Rica has a mobile subscriber base of 1.2m and a penetration of 29%.

Tunisie Telecom currently has 2.5m mobile subscribers and 1.2m fixed line users.

Chile: broadband connections reached 711k in 2005, up 42%.

Belgacom has around 40k subscribers for its new TV service, but is running behind schedule.

The number of mobile subscribers in Russia reached 130m in February.