China markeChina Mobile sees strong 3G user growth in March

China Mobile Communications, one of the three 3G mobile telecom carriers in China, saw the number of its 3G subscribers increase by 3.41 million in March 2010, the highest-ever monthly growth, according to industry sources in Taiwan citing company statistics.

The other two carriers are China Telecom and China United Telecommunications (China Unicom).

China market: 3G mobile user base, March 2010

Operator


Standard


Increase in subscribers (million)


Total subscribers (million)

China Mobile


TD-SCDMA


3.41


7.69

China Telecom


CDMA2000


3.3


65.45

China Unicom


WCDMA


0.759


4.82

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