November 16 (SeeNews) - Montenegro's mobile phone penetration rate fell to 219.98% at the end of October from 226.42% a month earlier, data from the country's telecoms regulator showed.
The three mobile phone operators in the country of 620,000 people reported a total of 1,364,167 SIM cards in use at the end of October. Pre-paid subscribers totalled 1,064,845, figures from Montenegro's Agency for Telecommunications indicated.
Montenegro's leading GSM operator, ProMonte, owned by Norway's biggest telecommunications group Telenor, had a 35.68% market share at the end of October.
The second biggest GSM operator in the Adriatic country, T-Mobile, is a unit of Magyar Telekom, the Hungarian arm of Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile, formerly known as Monet, had a market share of 34.49% at the end of October.
The third largest mobile operator, M:Tel, started operations in Montenegro in July 2007. It reported a 29.83% market share at the end of October. M:Tel is owned by a consortium of Serbian state-owned Telekom Srbija and Netherlands-based Ogalar.