Colombia's mobile phone subscribers down 0.7%

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Monday, 25 January 2010 16:56 Jim Glade

The number of mobile-telephone subscribers in Colombia fell to 42.03 million at the end of December, down 0.7% from 42.34 million at the end of September, the country's antitrust agency said Monday.

This fall is driven by the country's largest operator, Comcel SA, owned by Mexico's America Movil SA, which has lost customers.

Comcel, the Colombian unit of Mexico-based America Movil, still held the biggest slice of the market with 28.87 million subscribers, down from 29.53 million at the end of September, the regulator said. Comcel controlled 69% of the Colombian market, down from 69.7% three months earlier.

There are about 45 million people living in Colombia.