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LIRNEasia’s Mobile Benchmarks (South Asia and Southeast Asia) and Broadband Benchmarks Report for October 2008 has been released. Click HERE for more information.




Who adds more phones a month in South Asia?

Massive mobile growth is reported from Bangladesh in 2006, with over two million being added in September alone, according to the BTRC.  The question now is whether Pakistan still leads the pack.

 

Mobiles

Net addition/month

Jan-06

10,275,869

 

Feb-06

10,543,898

268,029

Mar-06

10,954,285

410,387

Apr-06

11,781,560

827,275

May-06

13,440,836

1,659,276

Jun-06

14,190,606

749,770

Jul-06

14,798,440

607,834

Aug-06

15,510,000

711,560

Sep-06

17,647,537

2,137,537

Bangladesh’s GrameenPhone tops 10 mln subscribers | Reuters.com

Bangladesh’s top mobile phone operator GrameenPhone Ltd. said on Sunday the number of its subscribers has passed 10 million, rising more than 80 percent since January.

The number of mobile phone users in Bangladesh will grow to 50 million during the three years to 2009, Erik Aas, managing director of GrameenPhone, told a news conference.

“Reduced entry cost for new subscribers will be the main driver for this growth. This can be achieved with lower handset prices and reduced connection taxes,” Aas said.

He said GrameenPhone’s client network was expected to…

Motorola for sub$30 handset for “unconnected”

GSM Association

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Motorola selected to supply affordable and robust handsets for second phase of programme to ‘connect the unconnected’

Singapore 27th September 2005: The mobile industry has driven the wholesale cost of mobile phones to below US$30 as part of the GSM Association (GSMA) programme to make mobile telephony affordable for people in developing countries.
“To get below US$30 per handset is a milestone achievement,” said Craig Ehrlich, Chairman of the GSMA, the global trade association for the world’s GSM mobile operators. “Today’s news cements the formation of a whole new market segment for the mobile industry and will bring the benefits of mobile communications to a huge swathe of people in developing countries.”
At the 3GSM World Congress in Singapore, Rob Conway, Chief Executive and…