4 Dec 2012

China market: October mobile phone user base reaches 1.095 billion, says MIIT

A total of 1.095 billion users subscribed to mobile communication services in China as of the end of October 2012, growing by 0.98% on month and by 13.63% on year, and 212.42 million (19.39%) of them were 3G users, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers at the end of October accounted for 80.6% of the country's population.

At the end of October 2012, 280.34 million users subscribed fixed telephone service in China, translating into a penetration rate of 21.0%.

In October 2012, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 71.83 billion text messages, or 2.13 text messages per phone number a day.

MIIT: China Internet-access user base, October 2012

Internet-access mode
Number of subscribers
Dial-up
5.73 million
Broadband
xDSL
119.97 million (Y/Y 6.45%)
Aggregate
172.50 million (Y/Y 13.11%)
Source: MIIT, compiled by Digitimes, December 2012

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