Subscriber figures - 31/08/06

Ecuador had 7.7m mobile phone users at the end of July.

China' s fixed lines subscriber base is expected to reach 425m by 2009. China Telecom had 219m in June.

Latest estimates: there were 70 m WCDMA subscribers in the world at the end of June.

MTN (S. Africa) reported a 9% rise in its subscriber base to 24.5m at the end of June.