China mobile phone user base up over 565 million in February 2008

There were 565.23 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of February 2008, growing by 1.70% on month and by 19.26% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on its Chinese-language web site.

The number of subscribers at the end of February accounted for 41.6% of the country's population.

Also at the end of February 2008 were there 362.19 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China.

In February 2008, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 61.61 billion short messages, averaging 3.79 short messages per phone number a day.



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[Source: Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]