The Vodafone Group and Orange each reported subscriber growth that met analysts' expectations, yet shares in both companies fell.
These figures are higher than currently reported subscriber numbers.
As of last December it was reporting subscribers numbers closer to 800 million.
Google Reader just began reporting subscriber numbers to FeedBurner last week.
(However, note that it used to report subscriber figures, then changed to only report uniques instead).
One complaint has been that local cable operators often under-report subscriber numbers to avoid passing on fees and paying government taxes.
At Home, a leading Internet broadband portal, also announced a record 460,000 subscribers, a jump of 39% from the last quarter, when they reported 331,000 subscribers, and a whopping 413% gain over figures for the same period last year, which amounted to only 90,000.
At the time, the company had a reported seven million subscribers.
At the beginning of the year, it had a reported 300,000+ subscribers, and by July it had scaled to nearly 800,000, reports claimed.
It has consistently trailed behind the number one cable broadband provider, At Home athm, which reported 700,000 subscribers for the second quarter and is on track to top the 1 million mark by the end of the year.
