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South African mobile market has seen a growth in Q2′08 and added 0.82 million new subscribers taking it’s subscriber base to 43.15 million.
The mobile penetration rate 98.5% was recorded in the country. The annual growth of 10.7% was half of that earned last year and lowest in past six years.
Though Vodacom experienced a loss 0.11 million subscribers, it remained the market leader with a subscriber base of 22.16million subscribers, 6.6 million more in comparison to MTN.
The operator saw a falling market share of 51.4%, the lowest since 2004, driven by MTN’s continous subscriber growth. On an Annual basis, the operator added only 0.21 million subscribers, at a growth rate of 0.9%.
MTN experienced a fall in it’s growth since last one year, falling from  28.4% to 14.6%, though it saw a rise in it’s subscriber growth.
The annual subscriber base growth was recorded as 1.99million.
The third operator, Cell C has seen the the highest quarterly gain in comparison to it’s rivals with an addition of 0.51million. The total subscriber base grew to 5.40million, with a market share of 12.5%. On the annual basis, it added 1.98million with a market share of 57.9%.

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