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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.

China market: Internet-access user base, January 2010

Internet-access mode

Number of subscribers

Dial-up (narrow band)

7.11 million

Dedicated line

98,855

Broadband

xDSL

86.14 million (Y/Y 24.68%)

Aggregate

105.13 million (Y/Y 24.22%)

Source: MIIT, compiled by Digitimes, March 2010