SingTel’s subs hit 158 mln, boosted by Bharti, Telkomsel (India)Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has seen its total subscriber-base in Asia reach 157.97 million at the end of September. Year-on-year the customer base grew by 57 percent from about 100.77 million customers. Bharti (India) and Telkomsel (Indonesia) had the largest subscriber growth in the group. Bharti added 6.17 million net mobile subscribers in quarter to reach 48.88 million with the bulk being prepaid subscribers while Telkomsel added 1.65 million subscribers to reach 44.46 milion. Warid Telecom, SingTel’s latest investment in Pakistan, contributed 11.87 million subscribers to the group. In its home-market, SingTel reached 2.13 million after adding 185,000 new customers, of which 163,000 were prepaid users. Optus (Australia) added 92,000 new subscribers of which 62,000 were postpaid, to reach 6.89 million in total. The number of 3G subscribers with Optus reached 868,000, up 27 percent quarter-on-quarter. On 7 November the company will issue its financial results.
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