China mobile phone user base at over 523 million in September 2007

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.