China Telecom has 186.7m fixed subscribers (+16%), of which 42m PAS (wireless local loop), and 14m broadband users (up 91%).
China currently has 10m smartphone users. This number could reach 23m by 2006.
Pakistan currently has about 8.9 mobile subscribers.
3 UK said it currently has 3m 3G subscribers.
Kyivstar GSM (Ukraine) has about 6.2 m mobile subscribers.
Orascom announced its subscriber base reached 14.5m, of which 3.4m in Algeria, 5.1m in Pakistan, and 4m in Egypt.
TelkomSel (Indonesia) reported 14.2m mobile subscribers in 04 and targets to reach 22m this year.
Brazil had 65.6m mobile subscribers at 2004 year-end. It targets to have 88m by the end of 2005.
India had 93m telephone subscribers (fixed+ mobile) at the end of 2004.
Chunghwa Telecom currently has 3.2m ADSL subscribers.