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China Had 930mn Mobile Phone Users by the End of July
[August 29, 2011]

China Had 930mn Mobile Phone Users by the End of July


BEIJING, Aug 29, 2011 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- China totally had 930 million mobile phone users, including 87.199 million 3G mobile phone users, by the end of July 2011, according to Ministry of Industry and information Technology.



Meanwhile, China totally received CNY 668.77 billion revenue from telecom business from January to July, hiking 16% year on year. Of the total revenue, CNY 559.46 billion was from telecom prime operating business, growing 10.1%.

From January to July, number of fixed telephone users decreased 4.888 million to 289.4 million; number of mobile phone users increased 70.835 million to 930 million; number of Internet broadband access users increased 17.192 million to 143 million; number of dial-up network users decreased 151,000 to 5.751 million.


In July, China added 8.61 million phone users, and the number accumulated to 1.219 billion. Specifically, number of fixed telephone users slipped 687,000; number of mobile phone users grew 9.297 million in July.

China totally received CNY 400.05 billion revenue from mobile communication business by the end of July, rising 14.2%, and taking 71.51% of the total revenue from telecom prime operating business.

Source: www.c114.net (August 29, 2011)

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