Montenegro sets record number of cell phone users
The number of cell phone users is 42 percent higher than Montenegro's total population, officials said Friday.
Sunday, 26.08.2007.
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The number of cell phone users is 42 percent higher than Montenegro's total population, officials said Friday. The Montenegrin Telecommunication Agency said it registered 881,500 cell phone users in July, the highest figure ever. The previous record was set in September 2006 with 791,251. Montenegro sets record number of cell phone users Montenegro has the population of 630.000. The latest report also included figures from the M:tel, country’s newest operator which covers 5.16 percent of the market. Montenegro’s largest mobile telephony operators are the ProMonte (owned by Norwegian Telenor) with 54.7 percent and the T-Mobile with 40.14 percent of the market share. In the report, the agency said that the cause for an increase of cell phone users in the number of tourists and the launch of a new mobile operator. “Usually, there are some 10 percent more users than residents. But, since July we have another operator and some 100.000 tourists,” a agency official told Balkan Insight on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to press.
Montenegro sets record number of cell phone users
Montenegro has the population of 630.000.The latest report also included figures from the M:tel, country’s newest operator which covers 5.16 percent of the market. Montenegro’s largest mobile telephony operators are the ProMonte (owned by Norwegian Telenor) with 54.7 percent and the T-Mobile with 40.14 percent of the market share.
In the report, the agency said that the cause for an increase of cell phone users in the number of tourists and the launch of a new mobile operator.
“Usually, there are some 10 percent more users than residents. But, since July we have another operator and some 100.000 tourists,” a agency official told Balkan Insight on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to press.
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