Korea ends September with 66.6 mln telephony subscribers (South Korea)Korea ended September with 66.58 million telephony subscribers, up 0.5 percent from August, according to figures from the communications ministry. Of the total, 23.31 million are fixed-line users while 42.80 million people have a mobile subscription, up 0.7 percent. KT is the fixed-line market leader with 91 percent market share and 21.21 million fixed-line subscribers, followed by hanarotelecom with an 8.4 percent market share and 1.96 million fixed-line users. The country ended September with 42.80 million mobile users, led by SKT with a 50.5 percent share of the market followed by KTF with a 31.7 percent share and LGT with a17.8 percent share of the mobile market. Some 41.14 million mobile customers have mobile internet services. During the first nine months of this year, 6.79 million used mobile number portability to switch providers and 521,194 people used fixed number portability.
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