China market: Mobile phone users total 786.5 million in April

There were 786.50 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of April 2010, growing by 1.24% on month and by 15.87% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers accounted for 56.3% of the country's population (user density).

At the end of April 2010 there were 307.55 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 23.6%.

In April, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 64.56 billion short messages, averaging 2.75 short messages per phone number a day.

MIIT: China's Internet-access user base, April 2010

Internet-access mode


Number of subscribers

Dial-up (narrow band)


7.13 million

Broadband


xDSL


90.58 million (Y/Y 23.62%)

Aggregate


111.02 million (Y/Y 23.60%)

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