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Spain added 182,263 mobile phone subscriptions in November 2007, taking the toal to 49.58 million mobile lines, or 110.9 lines per 100 inhabitants, according to telecommunication regulator CMT. Of the subscribers, 50.7 percent (92,407) signed with Vodafone, 30.2 percent (55,043) chose Yoigo, 10.9 percent (19,867) went with Telefonica Movil’s Movistar, and 1.6 percent (2,916) chose MVNOs. Mobile number portability rose by 7 percent to 328,455 lines in November 2007 compared to November 2006. Telefonica added 18,269 ported numbers and Yoigo added 18,150. Orange had lost 21,945 net lines to portability, followed by Vodafone with 12,131, Euskaltel with 359 and the remainder of MVNOs lost 1,987.

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Telecompaper writes…Yoigo says calls from interested potential customers have doubled in the last week to 13,000 a day, reports El Mundo. Spain’s fourth mobile operator, which launched in December, said interest had increased since it had announced it would not increase prices from 1 March in response to Spain’s anti-rounding law, unlike rival operators Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, Euskaltel and Happy Movil. Chief executive Johan Andsjo said: “Although it’s still too early to affirm it completely, we are satisfied with the response of the market to our announcement that we won’t increase tariffs from 1 March…Definitively, we are on the right track”.

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(Reuters) - Phone operator Euskaltel said on Friday it has signed a deal with British mobile phone group Vodafone which will enable the Basque firm to offer mobile services all over

Spain

from January 2007.

Up to now Euskaltel, in a deal with France Telecom’s Amena, has only offered mobile phone coverage in the Basque region of

Spain

where it has 460,000 clients — around 30 percent of the market.

Under the Amena deal Euskaltel was blocked from trading in the rest of

Spain

while Amena could not enter the Basque country.

“This alliance makes Euskatel an independent mobile phone operator for the first time and allows us to extend our reach into the whole country,” Euskaltel said in a statement.

Source- http://in.today.reuters.com

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