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Singapore's SingTel expands global customer base by 34 per cent
Aug 11, 2010, 12:58 GMT
Singapore - South-East Asia's biggest telecommunications company, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, Wednesday said its mobile customer base had increased by 88.5 million, or 34 per cent, year-on-year.
SingTel said the company and its international associates had nearly 351 million mobile subscribers by the end of June, up from about 262 million a year earlier.
SingTel and its associate companies operate in eight countries in the region - Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Its biggest associate, India's Bharti, had 177 million mobile customers by the end of June, including 36.4 million from newly acquired mobile operations in 15 African countries.
SingTel said it would announce on Thursday its results for the first quarter, which ended June 30.
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