DUSHANBE, April 26, Asia-Plus  -- As of April 1, 2008, the number of individual mobile subscribers in Tajikistan has been estimated at 2.3 million, the Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister, Zuhriddin Kenjayev, told a press conference in Dushanbe on April 25.

According to him, the number of fixed-lined subscribers has tripled in the country by end of the first quarter of this year.

On the number of Internet users in Tajikistan, the deputy minister said that the number of Internet users in Tajikistan has increased 5.5 times in the year to April 1, 2008, reaching 441,469.