China market: Mobile phone user base increases to over 729 million in October 2009

There were 729.537 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of October 2009, growing by 1.35% on month and 16.30% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers at the end of October accounted for 54.3% of the country's population (user density).

Also at the end of October 2009 there were 321.38 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 24.4%.

In October 2009, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 67.26 billion text messages, averaging 2.99 messages per subscription a day.

China market: Internet-access user base, October 2009

Internet-access mode
Number of subscribers

Dial-up (narrow band)
8.94 million

Dedicated line
90,241

Broadband
xDSL
82.277 million (Y/Y 25.21%)

Aggregate
100.887 million (Y/Y 22.71%)