The Portugal Telecom Industry reported its third quarter results. The subscriber base reaches to 14.5 million, a 1.5 percent increase on the previous three months and 12.4 percent more than in the same period in 2007, as per the recent data. Post-paid users represent more than 25 percent of the total, or 3.67 million. The operator adds 216,000 new subscribers, taking to 1.6 million the number of additions over the past 12 months. 1.97 billion Calls were made from mobile, up 7.4 percent on the previous quarter and 1.95 billion were received, up 6.1 percent on the second quarter. The number of SMS messages sent grows to 3.8 percent to 6.087 billion. The mobile penetration rate in September stood at 137 percent.

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