Monday, April 28, 2008
China mobile phone user base tops 574 million in March 2008
Press release, April 28; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Monday 28 April 2008]
There were 574.63 million endorsers of mobile communicating services in People'S Republic Of People'S Republic Of People'S Republic Of People'S Republic Of China as of the end of March 2008, growing by 1.66% on calendar month and by 19.55% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on April 25.
The figure of endorsers at the end of March accounted for 41.6% of the country's population (user density).
Also at the end of March 2008 there were 361.06 million fixed telecommunication web endorsers in China, translating into a user denseness of 27.8%.
In March 2008, mobile telephone endorsers in China sent 58.61 billion samariums textual matter messages, averaging 3.32 messages per subscription a day.
China Internet-access user base, March 2008
Internet-access
Number of endorsers at end of March 2008
Dial-up (narrow band)
16.74 million
Dedicated lines
64,246
Broadband
xDSL
56.59 million (Y/Y 37.28%)
Aggregate
71.47 million (Y/Y 27.03%)
Source: MII, compiled by Digitimes, April 2008
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