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Subscriber figures - 15/04/07
Russia has passed the 155m mobile subscriber base mark in March 07. India added 6.1m new mobile users in March 07. The total number of GSM subscribers had reached 121.4m at the end of March, up 5% qoq. Bharti Airtel added 1.7m new subscribers to bring...
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Subscriber figures - 25/03/06
Dutch broadband subscribers passed the four million mark at the end of 2005 (household penetration over 58%). Australia: Vodafone reports 78,000 3G subscribers since 10/05. UK: MVNO Tesco (UK supermarket group) has over 1m mobile subscribers. China Netcom...
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People - 18/02/07
T-Mobile USA marketing boss, Mike Butler, has resigned Ron Garriques, head of the mobile device division of Motorola, leaves for Dell. Nokia plans to cut about 700 jobs, mainly in R&D, IT operations and market sales. Telefonica Mexico has hired former...
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Subscriber figures - 19/03/06
France Telecom has crossed 1.35m VOIP subscriber base in Europe, of which 1m in France or 41% market share. Europe (25 countries) has about 226m fixed lines in use and 409m mobile subscribers. Broadband penetration reached 10.6% in mid 2005. Vodafone...
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Subscriber figures - 16/03/06
Africa passed 113m mobile subscribers by the end of 2005, and could increase at a CAGR of 22% to reach 378m users by the end of 2011. Current penetration is about 14% and could reach 42% by 2011. DT sees 11.5m DSL broadband customers in Germany in 2007,...
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Subscriber figures - 10/03/06
Infonetics reported that the number of DSL subscribers jumped 27% in 2005 to almost 126m. Bharti Tele-Ventures (India) had a subscriber base of 18.5m (+6%) as of the end of February, while Hutchison Essar (India) had 14.5m (up 6%); BSNL had 16.1m (up...
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Top 10 European MNOs?
In 2Q07, there were minor changes in the top European mobile operators ranking. T-Mobile Germany has regained the number one spot from TIM Italy. It added some 1.3m new subscribers (second best performer in the quarter) , while TIM added far less to a...
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Subscriber figures - 08/03/06
Idea Cellular (India) had 7m mobile subscribers at the end of February. At the end of 2005, India had about 75m mobile subscribers, up 56%. It added about 4.7m new subscribers in January, a Chinese-like high-mark. Argentina: 22.7m mobile lines, up 62%,...
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Subscriber figures - 04/03/06
Vodacom (S. Africa) had 21.5m mobile subscribers at the end of 2005. DT reported it had 83.1m mobile subscribers by the end of 2005. Japan: 10m IP telephony subscribers at the end of 2005. Orange has 70m mobile subscribers in the nine European markets...
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Subscriber figures - 02/03/2006
World: according to Exemus, the total number of mobile subscribers worldwide at the end of 2005 grew to 2.13 bn (+21%). Pakistan Telecom has 5m mobile subscribers (Ufon) and 5m fixed line users. Venezuela: 12.5m mobile subscribers, according to regulator...
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Subscriber figures - 26/02/06
China said it passed 400m mobile subscribers in early February 2006. Orange UK targets SMEs in the UK with a new service called Orange Landline for Business. The target is of course to offer bundles of mobile and fixed services. Movistar Argentina, a...
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Subscriber figures - 23/02/06
Brazil: Vivo is the mobile market leader with 34% market share, followed by TIM Brazil with 23.5% and Claro (Telmex Brazil) with 21.5%, Telemar with 12.3%, Telemig and Amazônia Celular at 5% and Brazil Telecom GSM at 2.5%. GSM accounts for 46m users,...
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WiMAX wrap-up
The WiMAX World USA in Chicago is the right occasion to look at the market and its future. As ever with new technologies, there were the “movers” that support it (almost unconditionally), the “followers” that cannot accept the idea to be laggards, and...
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Subscriber figures - 16/02/06
Time Warner Cable had 1.1m VOIP subscribers and Comcast 1.3m VOIP users at the end of 2005. MegaFon’ s (Russia) total subscriber base amounted to 22.8m users as of Dec. 31, 2005. Chile ' s mobile base was 11m at end 2005, and is expected to grow to 12m...
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Global vendor strategies - 29/09/07
Arris has entered into a definitive agreement to buy C-COR for about $730m. ALU board is calling for CEO Patricia Russo to present an emergency plan at the end of October, a way to put pressure on the CEO. ALU accelerates its integration plan, and the...
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Subscriber figures - 11/02/06
SingTel (Germany) reports nearly 78m mobile subscribers (+26%), of which 1.6m in Singapore. America Movil (Mexico and LATAM) announced it has 93.3m (+53%) mobile subscribers in 14 countries (of which 39m in Mexico, 19m in Brazil, 14m in Colombia) and...
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Subscriber figures - 9/02/06
Connex Vodafone (Romania) has a total customer base of 6,1m, of which 100k 3G users. India finished year 2005 with some 76m mobile subscribers, up 63%. The Taiwanese 3G operators have only signed 500k 3G users despite aggressive marketing and promotions...
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Subscriber figures - 04/02/06
Etisalat (UAE) had about 4.5m mobile connections (+23%) at the end of 2005. Virgin Mobile UK had 4.4m subscribers at the end of 2005. Africa : 113.5m mobile subscribers at end-2005, according to Portio Research. Bangladesh : expected mobile subscriber...
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Subscriber figures - 1/2/06
SFR (France), the mobile arm of Vivendi Universal, reported 17.2m (+9%) mobile subscribers, of which 1m 3G users. Indonesia had about 43.5m mobile users at end-Sept. 2005, or a penetration of 19%. According to Teleco, Brazil could pass 108m mobile user...
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Subscriber figures - 28/1/06
Vodafone reports almost 180m proportionate customer base, of which 9.1 3G subscribers. CTC (Chile) announced 314k broadband customers, up 56%, at the end of 2005. USA have an estimated 195m mobile phone user base, and this could reach 240m by 2009. Uralsvyazinform...
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Subscriber figures - 25/1/6
India: 76m mobile subscribers and 49m main lines, the third-largest mobile market in Asia, trailing only China and Japan in customer numbers. India plan to have 200m mobile subs. by the end of 2007. Bharti (India) currently has 16.3m mobile subscribers....
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Subscriber figures - 22/1/06
Peru: 5,7m mobile users in 2005, expected to rise 50% in 2006, and reach 10.3m in 2007. China: China Unicom added 1,25m new users bringing its total to 128m customers, of which 95,1m GSM users and 32,7m CDMA subs.. China Mobile added almost 4m new subscribers...
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Subscriber figures - 19/01/06
India started 2006 with 835,000 broadband subscribers. Orange has 300k 3G subscribers in the UK and maintains its target for 1.5 million 3G users by the end of the year. Colombia' s mobile phones doubled to 22m in 2005 (penetration of 50%), with Comcel...
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Subscriber figures - 14/01/06
Hutchison Whampoa said it has 11m 3G subscribers. Cesky Telecom (Czech Republic) announced 275,000 ADSL subscribers (+175%). SFR (France) says its 3G clients base surpass 1m, aiming now for 2.5m by end-2006. Australia has 2.5m broadband customers, according...
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Subscriber figures - 5/1/06
India has just 72 million mobile-phone subscribers. Vodacom (S. Africa) said it had 17.5m subscribers by the end of 2005. China had 746m phone users at end of 2005, this could grow to 820m+ in 2006. Orange (France) unveiled its UMTS/ EDGE customer base...