Articles tagged with: Telkomsel and Reliance
Telkomsel Q1 2009 - Excellent Customer Growth, but at a Cost
Indonesian market leader telkomsel saw another excellent quarter for customer growth in Q1 09. In fact, its figure of 6.83m net additions was the second highest ever recorded behind its own Q3 08 boost of 8.06m. At the end of the quarter, it had 72.13m customers. Despite the strong quarterly performance, telkomsel fell from 6th to 7th in the world rankings of individual operators, having been overtaken by Reliance of India. more
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Top 20 Operators in Asia-Pac: Bharti overtakes DoCoMo, India Gains Ground
The mobile markets of the Asia Pacific region continues to grow in importance. In Issue 99, we reported the fact that at the end of September, there were 20 networks in the world with more than 30m customers, of which eight were in this region. Those eight included the two largest - China Mobile and China Unicom - as well as the seventh, eighth, tenth, twelfth, 13th and 20th. Just three months later, there are now 23 networks that have passed the 30m mark and nine of these are now in the AsiaPac region, including four from India. Of the nine, four now have over 50m customers, the other two outside China being Bharti from India and DoCoMo from Japan. Together, the nine have a total of 831m customers, or just under 25% of the global market. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, china-unicom, w-cdma, china-mobile, telenor, docomo, mts, softbank, ais, kddi, pakistan-mobile, piltel, ufone, satelindo, danger
Who are the Fastest Growing Operators in Asia-Pacific?
No fewer than 16 companies added more than 5 million customers over the course of the twelve months ended June 07. China Mobile heads the list with a massive 58.6 million customers - as many as the next three operators put together, and then some. As we have suggested before, it would take a genuinely radical restructuring of China's communications industry to threaten the company's world leading position and that seems unlikely. more
Related Tags: telenor, china-mobile, ipo, bharti, pakistan-mobile, warid-telecom, bsnl, hutchison, vivo, telsim, India

