Mobile phone users in China boom to 409m | Shanghai Daily: China news blog

Mobile phone users in China boom to 409m Shanghai Daily: China news blog:

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"CHINA had 5.42 million more mobile phone users each month for the past quarter and the total number of mobile phone users climbed to 409 million by the end of March, the Ministry of Information Industry said today.

The demand for mobile phones keeps expanding in China, the ministry said. For every 100 people in China now, 30.3 have mobile phones.

Short messages sent in the first quarter reached 98.82 billion, up 47 percent from a year ago.

Compared with mobile phone users, the country had more than 358 million fixed-line users before April, 8.34 million more than last year, it said. For every 100 people in China, 27 have fixed-line telephones.

The postal and telecom industries in China reported a combined revenue of 169.26 billion yuan (US$21.16 billion) in the first quarter, up 11.8 percent from a year ago.
The telecom industry had an income of 153.43 billion yuan, while postal offices around the country collected 15.83 billion yuan in the same period, Xinhua said. "