China mobile phone user base increases to almost 660 million in February 2009

There were 659.78 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of February 2009, growing by 1.55% on month and 16.73% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers at the end of February accounted for 48.5% of the country's population (user density).

Also at the end of February, there were 337.7 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 25.8%.

during February, subscribers sent 61.77 billion text messages, averaging 3.37 per users a day.