CHINA / National
China has over 420M mobile users
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-06-21 15:27
The number of China's mobile phone subscribers reached more than 420
million at the end of May, reported the Ministry of Information Industry
on Wednesday.
Statistics show that the number increased by 27.39 million in five
months, more than twice the increase of fixed-line users. There are 57
million more mobile subscribers than fixed-line users.
The average monthly increase in mobile users has been between 3 million
and 4 million in the past year, said the ministry.
China's mobile subscribers have been growing steadily since they
outnumbered fixed-line phone subscribers in October 2003.
Along with the increase in mobile phone subscribers, the volume of text
messages climbed 46.3 percent from the first five months of the previous
year to 167.95 billion.
The ministry also said that in the January to May period this year
China's total post and telecommunications revenue reached 287.82 billion
yuan (around 35.97 US billion dollars), up 11.4 percent on the previous
year.
China imported its first mobile phone telecommunication facilities in
1987 and it took a decade for the number of subscribers to reach 10
million. Four years later, the country had the largest number of mobile
phone subscribers in the world.
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