China mobile phone user base at over 531 million in October 2007

There were 531.45 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of October 2007, growing by 1.55% on month and by 18.36% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on its Chinese-language website on November 27.

The number of subscribers at the end of October accounted for 39.9% of the country's population (user density), according to the the MII.

Also at the end of last month were there 370.68 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 28.3%.

In October of this year, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 52.61 billion short messages, averaging 3.22 short messages per phone number a day.

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