Subscriber figures - 24/07/06

The UMTS Forum estimates there are over 38m UMTS customers in Europe and 75m worldwide.

MTN Congo had 222k mobile users as of 31 March 2006.

Kyivstar' subscriber base rose 15% to 16m mobile subscribers in Ukraine as of July 1.

Bangladeshi mobile operator GrameenPhone had 8.5m mobile users at the end of June.

There were 8.7m mobile users in Hong Kong at the end of April.

India: 106m mobile users and 47m fixd subscribers at the end of June. India added some 3.2m new GSM users in June.

Russia: MTS subscriber base tops 64 m at the end of June.

Millicom subscribers top 10m in 2Q06

Japan added 313,600 new mobile subscribers in June for a total 92.9m.

Astelit (Ukraine) had a subscriber base of 3.9m users as of July 1.

Africa passed 150m mobile subscribers mark at the end of the first quarter this year.

China said that its population of Internet users has jumped by nearly 20% over the past year to 123m.

Cingular Wireless ended the second quarter with 57.3m subscribers. Cingular ended the quarter with 57.3m customers. ARPU was down 3.3% to $48.8, while data ARPU went up 38% to $5.8. Its quarterly capex amounted to $1.6bn.

China Mobile ended June with 274m mobile subscribers.