China mobile phone user base increases to nearly 679 million in April 2009

There were 678.8 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of April 2009, growing by 1.26% on month and 16.33% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers at the end of April accounted for 50.7% of the country's population (user density).

Also at the end of April there were 333.21 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 25.3%.

Mobile phone subscribers in China sent 60.25 billion text messages, averaging 2.98 messages per subscription a day in April.

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