China April mobile phone user base grows to 1.155 billion, says MIIT
Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Monday 27 May 2013]
There were 1.155 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of April 2013, growing 0.79% on month and 2.14% on year. 288.74 million (25%) were 3G users and 807.65 million (69.92%) were mobile Internet-access users, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The number of subscribers at the end of April accounted for 84.9% of the country's population (user density).
Also at the end of April, there were 275.19 million subscribers of fixed telephone services in China, translating into a user density of 20.5%.
In April, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 76.69 billion text messages, averaging 2.22 messages per phone number a day, and mobile access to the Internet resulted in total traffic of 96,023Tb.
MIIT: China Internet-access user base, April 2013
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Internet-access mode
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Number of subscribers
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Dial-up
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5.63 million
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Broadband
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xDSL
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114.19 million (Y/Y negative 3.88%)
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Aggregate
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177.88 million (Y/Y 11.66%)
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Source: MIIT, compiled by Digitimes, May 2013
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