China mobile phone user base increased to over 555 million in January 2008

There were 555.77 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of January 2008, growing by 1.55% on month and by 18.90% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII).

The number of subscribers at the end of January accounted for 41.6% of the country's population (user density).

Also at the end of January 2008 there were 363.95 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 27.8%.

In January 2008, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 54.64 billion short messages, averaging 3.17 per phone number a day.



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