China market: March mobile phone user base nears 777 million, says MIIT

There were 776.87 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of March 2010, growing by 1.42% on month and by 15.89% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers in March accounted for 58.4% of the country's population (user density).

There were 308.68 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 23.2% in March.

In March mobile phone subscribers in China sent 67.95 billion short messages, averaging 2.84 short messages per phone number a day.

MIIT: China's Internet-access user base, March 2010

Internet-access mode


Number of subscribers

Dial-up (narrow band)


7.19 million

Broadband


xDSL


89.31 million (Y/Y 24.27%)

Aggregate


109.33 million (Y/Y 24.05%)