China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) and China Unicom (NYSE: CHU; 0762.HK; 600050.SH) have announced their subscriber totals for March 2012.

China Mobile added 5.8 mln new mobile subscribers, pushing the operator's total mobile user base to 667.2 mln, of which a total of 59.56 mln subscribers used China Mobile's TD-SCDMA terminals during the month. China Mobile added 2.97 mln new TD-SCDMA subscribers in March.

China Unicom added 3.52 mln new mobile subscribers during the month, bringing its total to 209.49 mln. Of the new mobile subs added, approximately 550,000 were GSM subscribers, bringing China Unicom's total GSM user base to 160.63 mln, while 2.97 mln were WCDMA 3G subscribers, pushing the company's total WCDMA user base to 48.86 mln subscribers.

China Unicom lost 55,000 fixed-line subs, dropping its total to 92.35 mln, and added 933,000 new broadband subs to reach 58.29 mln.

Source:marbridgeconsulting