Subscriber figures - 17/05/06

Telecom Argentina had 6.4m (+50%) mobile subscribers at the end of March, 4m of fixed line subscribers and 244k broadband fixed customers.

Venezuela: mobile penetration reached 51% with 13.7m mobile users (+55%) at the end of March.

MTN (South Africa) had a mobile customer base of 24.2m at the end of March.

The US twenty largest cable and DSL providers added about 3m broadband subscribers in 1Q06.

Ukraine's UMC mobile subscriber base reached 14.6m as of May 1^st.