China market: Mobile communication service subscribers over 627 million in October 2008

There were 627.27 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of October 2008, growing by 0.52% on month and by 18.03% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) at its Chinese-language web site.

The number of subscribers at the end of October accounted for 47.3% of the country's population (user density).

Also at the end of October 2008 there were 351.44 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 26.8%.

In October 2008, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 59.53 billion short messages, averaging 3.07 short messages per phone number a day.

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