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Subscriber figures - 01/09/07
China had 508.5m mobile subs. End-July, in addition to 372.8m fixed-line users. The number of IPTV subscribers in China surged 20% in2Q07, reaching 736k, on track to top a million by the end of the year. China Telecom reached 224m fixed subscribers as...
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Operator subscribers - 28/08/07
China Unicom added 1.5m mobile subscribers (of which 1.1m in GSM) in July bringing its total to 153.1m (of which 113.7m GSM). China Mobile added 5.6m new subscribers in July, bringing its total to 338m users. China would pass 500m mobile subscriber base...
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Subscriber figures - 18/08/07
Singtel' regional subscriber base rose to 136m at end-June. Kenya' s mobile customer base reached over 10m at end-June, and penetration now stands at 29%. Safaricom holds almost 77% of the market, followed by Kencell. Personal (Argentina) ended 2Q07 with...
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Subscriber figures - 06/08/07
M6 Mobile (MVNO in France) has reached 1m subscribers, a year before the estimated date. It now aims at 1.5m users by 2008-end. Iusacell (Mexico) had 3.9m mobile subscribers at June-end. LG Telecom (S. Korea) had 7.5m mobile users at June-end. Verizon...
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Subscriber figures - 10/08/07
Bharti Airtel (India) reports almost 43m mobile subscribers at the end of June, with net additions in June of 5.5m and a market share of over 24%, up 3 points. There are only 7 mobile operators (on a national basis) in the world with over 50m mobile subscribers:...
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Subscriber figures - 16/07/07
Vimpelcom (Russia) had 38.6m mobile subscribers (or 27% market share). France: 50m mobile subscribers, of which 5.7m are 3G. APAC: according to the CDMA Development Group (CDG), CDMA 2000 claims 161 million 3G subscribers (2.75 and 3G subscribers) in...
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Subscriber figures - 08/07/07
Hong Kong would reach 2m broadband subscribers at year-end. Argentina mobile user base reached 35.6m at the end of May (+42%). Vietnam has nearly 30m mobile subscribers, with 6 mobile operators: Vinaphone, MobiFone, Viettel, S-Fone, EVN Telecom and HT...
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Subscriber figures - 29/06/07
Pakistan is one of the hottest mobile markets in the world. It has reached 58.4m (+50%) mobile subscribers in April 07. Brazil got a mobile subscriber base of 106.1 m in May, highlighting a continuous net additions slide from higher levels in 2004 and...
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Subscriber figures - 15/06/07
Japan had 26.5m broadband subscribers at the end of March, up 680k in a quarter. 8.8m customers are FTTH users. Mobile penetration in Saudi Arabia reached 89% by the end of March, with 21.5m customers. Serbia has 7.2m mobile customers (+1.8m) and penetration...
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Subscriber figures - 06/06/07
France currently has 13.5m broadband subscribers. The EMEA region had over 89m mobile handset shipments in 1Q07, up 9%. Ecuador had a mobile subscriber base of 9m at hte end of April. Conecel is the largest operator with 66% market share. Over 200m customers...
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Mobile operator strategies - 07/10/07
Nigeria planned to quadruple GSM base station to 40,000 by 2010. Telkom Kenya has been awarded a mobile operator license. 3 and Skype will cooperate to develop a handset with both of their services. Guamcell (GUAM) is new on the list of CDMA operators...
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Subscribers figures - 02/06/07
Idea Cellular currently has 15m subscribers in India, while Spice Telecom has a 3m subscriber base. Vodacom (S. Africa) has increased by 28% its mobile subscriber base to over 30m. According to ROA group, Japan will increase its mobile penetration to...
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Subscriber figures - 30/05/07
Chile : almost 14m mobile GSM subscribers at the end of March, accounting for 80% of the total market. Movistar is the market leader with 42%, followed by Entel with 38% and Claro with 20%. Latin America had 327m mobile users, according to 3G Americas....
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Subscriber figures - 23/05/07
Portugal: about 2.1m broadband subscribers by the end of March 2007, of which 946k are ADSL, 558k are cable and 573k are 3G cellular. Portugal has about 12.4m mobile subscribers (+7%) US: the mobile market is dominated by ATT with 25% market share, followed...
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Subscriber figures - 20/05/07
Claro (Brazil) had 24.6m mobile subscribers at the end of March, up 30%. Indotel, the Dominican Republic telecom regulator, reported 5.8m fixed and mobile telephony lines in service, or a teledensity of 64%. True (Thailand) had 8.1m mobile subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 12/05/07
T-Mobile USA gained 980,000 new customers in 1Q07, 75% were contract customers. It had more than 26m customers at the end of March. T-Com lost 588k customers in fixed line customers, but added 572k broadband lines in 1Q07. According to Arcep, France currently...
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Subscriber figures - 07/10/07
PT Telkom (Indonesia) had 44m mobile subscribers at the end of July (+16%). Bangladesh had 32.4m mobile users at the end of July. DoCoMo currently has 40m 3G subscribers, but the growth is poised to slow down from now. CDMA subscriber base in LATAM is...
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Subscriber figures - 09/05/07
DoCoMo' subscribers to its flat-rate data communications billing plans "pake-hodai" and "pake-hodai full" were 10m at the end of April. E-Plus (Germany) had 13.1m mobile customers, up 15%, at the end of March. PLDT 5philippines) had 26m mobile subscribers...
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Subscribers figures - 05/05/07
MTN (S. Africa) reports 44.3m (+11%) subscribers at end-1Q07, of which 39.2m in S. Africa. Vodacom (S. Africa) had 28.2m customers at 31 Dec. 2006. Free (France) announced it added 220k new broadband ADSL customers in the quarter to a total of 2.5m (25.6%...
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People - 07/10/07
Reinhard Clemens has been named T-Systems head. Nortel appoints Pavi Binning as CFO. ALU/ Genesys has appointed Paul Segre President and CEO. Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom is stepping down as CEO of the company to become non-executive chairman. Rudi...
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Subscriber figures - 03/05/07
Spain added 516k new mobile subscribers in March, bringing its total to 47.5m. Nextel International (NII) targets 43m PTT users in LATAM. Bharti Airtel (India) added 5.3m mobile subscribers in 1Q07, to a total of 37.1m. Claro (Brazil) reported 24.6m mobile...
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New telecom glut preparing ?
Do not forget that the telecom turmoil in 2000 was due to overcapacity, price collapse and easy money. The current situation is quite different. It took years to digest overcapacity and money is no more so easy. But.... In recent Telcoflash posts, I wondered...
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Subscriber figures - 28/04/07
There were 50m mobile subscribers in West Africa at the end of 2006. America Movil added 6.5m new mobile subscribers in 1Q07 to a total of 131m (+30%) in LATAM at the end of March, of which almost 45m in Mexico. Teliasonera reports that it had more than...
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Subscribers figures - 21/04/07
Colombia ' s mobile phone lines rise to 28m. Clearwire had 258,000 customers at the end of March 07. SFR (France) has 140,000 mobile TV users. Cosmote Romania has added 1m new mobile subscribers in four months. It nos has 2m subscribers. Mobistar (Belgium)...
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Subscriber figures - 19/04/07
Starcomm (Nigeria) has registered 500k CDMA subscribers since it was awarded a UAL licence last year. Nigeria reported that 38m telephone lines were activated, but 6m seem inactive. NA cable operators added more than 1.3m VOIP subscribers in 4Q06, to...