There were 1,030.05 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of April 2012, growing by 1.10% on month and by 14.40% on year, and 158.97 million (15.43%) of them were 3G 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 73.6% of the country's population (user density).
At the end of April 2011 there were 283.76 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 21.3%.
In April 2012, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 70.78 billion short messages, averaging 2.30 short messages per phone number a day.
China market: Internet-access user base, April 2012 |
Internet-access mode | Number of subscribers |
Dial-up (narrow band) | 5.62 million |
Broadband | xDSL | 118.80 million (Y/Y 11.37%) |
Aggregate | 159.31 million (Y/Y 17.21%) |
Source: MIIT, compiled by Digitimes, May 2012
