Subscriber figures 24-01-05 N48

Brazil mobile customers reached 66m (+41%), with a mobile penetration of 37%, according to Anatel.

Japan‘s mobile phone shipments fell 9% to 3.8m units in November. Total users were 89.7m, or 71% population penetration.

China totaled 334m mobile subscribers and 316m fixed-lines users by the end of 2004. China Unicom added 646k CDMA users and 886k GSM subscribers in December.

Telekom Austria unveiled its DSL figures (about 384,000 DSL lines in operation) and mobile subscribers (4.9m) at group level.

DoCoMo (Japan) reports 9m  3G FOMA users as of 20 January.