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Mobile users exceed 349 million
(Chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2005-04-30 14:23
The latest statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry on
Tuesday show that, by the end of March, China's total number of phone
subscribers exceeded 674 million, of which mobile users exceeded 349 million,
with a diffusion rate of 25.9 percent.
Among all phone subscribers, over 325 million were fixed-line telephone
subscribers, increasing 12.962 million compared to the end of the previous year,
with a diffusion rate of 24.9 percent.
The statistics also indicate that from January to March of this year, China's
communications services revenue achieved the goal of 150.45 billion yuan
(US$18.18 billion), an increase of 8.8 percent compared to the same period last
year. Postal services achieved revenues of 13.92 billion yuan, increasing 6.3
percent over the same period last year, while telecommunications revenues
reached 136.52 billion yuan, up 9.1 percent over last year.
In the last three months, the growth rate of China's telecommunications
revenue declined a little compared to the same period last year. The revenue
growth rate of the last three months could not reach 10 percent. However, before
2004, the figures were always above 10 percent. This indicates that China's
telecommunications market is becoming saturated, since there is no obvious
growth point at this stage.
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