China's Mobile Phone Subscribers Reach Almost 400 Million

Feb 13, 2006 12:48

China's Ministry of Information Industry has officially announced communication services related statistics as of the end of 2005. According to the statistics, the number of mobile phone service subscribers is 393.428 million, 58.604 million more compared to the previous year. It indicates that subscriber numbers continued to grow at a fast rate of about 3 million per month. The number of subscribers to mobile phone packet communication services, including GPRS, is 71.011 million. These subscribers increased to 44.937 million, more than double the number a year earlier.

Meanwhile, the number of Internet users is 111 million. Fixed broadband service users expanded to 12.629 million households from the preceding year and reached 37.504 million. Of the 37.504 million households, DSL service subscribers account for 26.359 million and wireless LAN and relevant service subscribers constitute 34,000.

Tetsuo Nozawa, Nikkei Electronics

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