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China Telecom June 3G Users Grew 1.29mn(Sinocast Telecommunications Beat (China) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) BEIJING, July 22, SinoCast -- China Telecom (SEHK: 0728) announced on July 21 that it re-lost 980,000 mobile users in June so that the total number dropped to 180.24 million and the number of mobile users witnessed a net decrease of 5.34 million in the first six months of this year. However, the group at the end of June was agreed to carry out hybrid network test of LTE FDD and TD-LTE in 16 Chinese cities and started to launch 4G mobile phone services from middle July. In June, the number of 3G users grew to 1.29 million, higher than 980,000 in May. The number of 3G users in the first half of this year witnessed a net increase of 4.13 million to 107.24 million in total. In June, the number of broadband users grew 550,000 to 104.13 million; the number of local phone users dropped 1.38 million to 149.22 million. |