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To: MrGreenJeans who wrote (2526)	2/14/2000 1:55:00 PM
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Germany's Mannesmann Has 10 Million Mobile Phone Clients By Sonja Heizmann Germany's Mannesmann Has 10 Million Mobile Phone Clients Dusseldorf, Germany, Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Mannesmann AG, Germany's largest cellular phone company that is being bought by Vodafone AirTouch Plc, said its German wireless business won its 10 millionth customer and expects further growth. ``The boom is unbroken -- in one or two years, every second German will have a mobile phone,' said Juergen von Kuczkowski, who heads Mannesmann's cellular operations. Currently 30 percent of all Germans own a cellular phone, Mannesmann said. The company's German mobile phone unit gained about half a million new subscribers in the first six weeks of this year after counting 9.5 million customers at the end of 1999. The combined Mannesmann-Vodafone will be Europe's biggest phone business with 29 million customers in 15 countries on the continent. International Data Corp. estimates there'll be 1 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide by 2003, up from 427 million last year.