It is the highest quarterly growth in mobile numbers registered by the SingTel Group.1100.8 million customers from about 74 million

customers a year ago.

Compared to the previous quarter, this figure represents an increase of 8.4 million customers.

It is the highest quarterly growth in mobile numbers registered by the SingTel Group.11

On a proportionate basis, SingTel?s subscriber base in the seven markets ? Australia,

Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand ? increased 31 per

cent from a year ago to more than 38 million.

The strongest growth came from Bharti and Telkomsel. As at 30 September 2006, Bharti?s

total subscriber base was 27.1 million. On a year-on-year basis, this is a record subscriber

growth of 92 per cent. Telkomsel also added a record 3.2 million in net new subscribers in

the current quarter. Its total mobile subscriber base of 32.5 million represents a 38 per cent

increase from a year ago.

In Australia, SingTel Optus added 46,000 customers for the quarter, increasing its mobile

customer base to 6.60 million. This represents an 8.5 per cent rise year-on-year. The growth

was achieved in a highly competitive market. As of 30 September 2006, there were 184,000

subscribers provisioned with 3G services.

SingTel saw an increase of 81,000 mobile subscribers - a record quarterly addition ? to reach

1.70 million mobile customers in Singapore as at 30 September 2006. The rise was largely

boosted by the good response to SingTel?s ?Hot $100? promotion where prepaid mobile

subscribers pay only $28 for $100 worth of call value. The number of 3G subscribers also

increased to 259,000 from 191,000 a quarter ago.

1 The previous record increase was 7.4 million subscribers for the quarter ended 30 June 2006.The previous record increase was 7.4 million subscribers for the quarter ended 30 June 2006.