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Mobile phone users in China market increase to over 756 million in January 2010, says MIIT
Source :Digitimes update : 2010-03-15
There were 756.6 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of January 2010, growing by 1.23% on month and by 16.45% on year, according to statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The number of subscribers accounted for 56.3% of the country's population (user density).
In January, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 66.53 billion short messages, averaging 2.85 short messages per phone number a day, the MIIT figures show.
As of the end of January there were 311.76 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 23.6%, according to MIIT.
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China market: Internet-access user base, January 2010
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Internet-access mode
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Number of subscribers
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Dial-up (narrow band)
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7.11 million
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Dedicated line
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98,855
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xDSL
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86.14 million (Y/Y 24.68%)
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Aggregate
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105.13 million (Y/Y 24.22%)
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Source: MIIT, compiled by Digitimes, March 2010
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