China market: Mobile phone users increase to nearly 766 million in February, says MIIT

There were 765.97 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of February 2010, up 1.24% on month and 16.10% on year, with a user density of 56.3%, according to statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

Mobile phone subscribers in China sent 71.16 billion short messages, averaging 3.34 short messages per phone number a day during the month.

In February there were 310.26 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China with a user density of 23.6%.

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

Internet-access mode


Number of subscribers

Dial-up (narrow band)


7.28 million

Broadband


xDSL


87.56 million (Y/Y 23.97%)

Aggregate


106.82 million (Y/Y 23.51%)