SingTel's mobile customer base tops 400 million

SingTel mobile customer base rises by 37 per cent from a year ago.

AFP | May 12, 2011



Asian telecommunications giant Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) today said it had more than 400 million customers by the end of March, a figure lifted by its Indian associate.

SingTel said its mobile customer base of 403 million was up 37 per cent from a year ago.

Indian associate Bharti registered the largest rise in customers, up 66 per cent on the year, or 84.3 million new clients, to 212 million in March.

Increases were also reported in SingTel's associates in Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan but a decline was reported in Bangladesh.

In the Singapore home market, SingTel added 191,000 new customers during the year to maintain its leadership with a client base of 3.31 million, or a market share of 44.8 per cent.

SingTel, whose biggest shareholder is state-linked Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings, will release its full-year earnings report on Thursday.
 

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