China mobile phone user base tops 547 million in December 2007

There were 547.29 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of December 2007, growing by 1.47% on month and by 18.70% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on January 31.

The number of subscribers at the end of December accounted for 41.6% of the country's population.

Also at the end of December 2007 there were 365.45 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China.

In December 2007, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 57.02 billion text messages, averaging 3.39 text messages per phone number a day.

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