China mobile phone user base increased to top 592 million in May 2008

There were 592.13 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of May 2008, growing by 1.48% on month and by 19.72% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on June 24.

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

Also at the end of May 2008 there were 358.9 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 27.8%.

In May 2008, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 58.25 billion text messages, averaging 3.2 messages per subscriber a day.