There were 523.32 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of September 2007, growing by 1.48% on month and by 18.09% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on its Chinese-language web site on October 26.
The number of subscribers at the end of September accounted for 39.9% of the country's population (user density), according to the MII. In contrast, Beijing had the largest user density of 101.6% and Shanghai posted the second largest one of 96.2% among major cities in China in September.
Also at the end of September, there were 371.66 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 28.3%.
In September, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 52.65 billion short messages, averaging 3.38 short messages per phone number a day.
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China's Internet-access user base |
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Internet-access mode |
Number of subscribers at end of September 2007 |
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Dial-up (narrow band) |
20.73 million |
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Dedicated lines |
69,802 |
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Broadband |
xDSL |
48.77 million (Y/Y 39.61%) |
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Aggregate |
63.05 million (Y/Y 29.80%) |
Source: MII, compiled by Digitimes, October 2007