Subscriber figures - 01/03/07

Wataniya (or NMT) in Kuwait has 4m subscribers in Kuwait, Algeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Maldives.

Unefon (Mexico) reports 1.3m subscribers at the end of 2006.

Taiwan reports that 3G user number has surged 157% to 3.4m in 2006.

The Indian government forecasts over 650m fixed and wireless connections in India by 2012, of which 66m wired and 584m mobile.

January 07 net mobile additions was an all-time record for the Chinese market with over 6m (4.8m for Mobile and 1.4m for Unicom) additions in the month.

Turkcell (Turkey) subscriber base rose to 31.8m, up 14%, as of Dec.31, 2006.

Sprint Nextel ended 2006 with a total of 53m mobile subscribers.

Hungary had a total of 906k broadband internet users at the end of 2006.