There were 952.31 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of September 2011, growing 1.30% on month and 14.28% on year, and 102.46 million, or 10.76%, of them were 3G users, according to statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers accounted for 71.1% of the country's population (user density).

There were 288.43 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 21.5%, in September.

Mobile phone subscribers in China sent 78.40 billion short messages, averaging 2.76 per phone number a day in September.