Telecom Paper
4th Feb 2008
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has seen its combined mobile subscriber base reach 171.54 million at the end of last year. Its mobile subscriber base in the eight markets (Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) went up by 53 percent from 112.28 million customers a year ago, boosted by the addition of Warid Telecom's 13.21 million subscribers in Pakistan. India's Bharti saw its subscriber base go up to 55.16 million, adding 6.29 million new subscribers in the last quarter. Telkomsel (Indonesia) has the second largest number of mobile subscribers among the associates, it added 3.43 million subscribers to bring its total mobile subscriber base to 47.89 million. AIS (Thailand), Globe Telecom (the Philippines), PBTL (Bangladesh) and Warid Telecom also posted healthy subscriber growth of between 4.4 percent and 11.3 percent during the quarter. In its home market, Singapore, SingTel ended 200 with a mobile subscriber base of 2.33 million after adding 197,000 new customers. SingTel saw its highest quarterly jump in 3G subscribers, growing to 749,000, an increase of 120,000 customers from a quarter ago. 3G subscribers now make up more than half (56%) of SingTel's postpaid mobile subscriber base. Optus (Australia) exceeded the 7-million mark, adding 108,000 new mobile subscribers. The number of 3G subscribers with Optus increased to 1.16 million, up 288,000 subscribers or 33 percent from a quarter ago.
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