Subscriber figures - 10/9/05

India: total subscriber base for the country's nine GSM-based mobile operators stood at 49m, up 4.3% or 2m in August. Bharti Tele-Ventures (India) subscriber base reached 13.4m at the end of August; the subscriber base of competitor Bharat Sanchar Nigam rose to 11.3m; Hutchison Essar Telecom subscriber base grew to 9.3m and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. increased its user base by 4.9% in August to 1.2m. The total number of mobile phones in the country rose to 62.6m, giving a 13.6m share to CDMA users.

Russia: mobile user number reached 107.3m in August.