Subscriber figures - 11/11/06

France: there were 49.8m mobile subscribers in France at the end of Sept.

Philippines: PLDT had 23m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept., of which 16.5m under the Smart brand and 6.4m under Piltel brand.

Telecom Italia has 8.2m broadband customers in Europe, of which 6.5m in Italy.

DoCoMo reports that its 3G FOMA subscriber base exceed the 30m mark.

The number of users of GSM mobile technology in LATAM reached 192m in 3Q06, up 85%.

Pakistan reports a mobile customer base of 41.5m at the end of Sept.

China MII announced that there were 370m land-line users in China.

TIM Brazil ended Sept 06 with 24.1m mobile customers, up 31%.

India reports it had 96m GSM mobile customers at the end of 3Q06.

BT had 9.3m broadband users at the end of Sept.

Turkcell had almost 31m mobile subscribers at the end of Sept.