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    China Business
     Oct 4, 2005
China now has over 715 million phone users

BEIJING - By the end of August 2005, the number of phone users had exceeded 715 million in China, according to statistics of the Ministry of Information Industry.

Of the total, 370 million are mobile phone users and 340 million are fixed-line phone users, an increase of 37.952 million and 30.54 million over the end of last year, respectively. Statistics show that the country's penetration rate of mobile phones reached



28% at the end of August, and that of fixed-line phones, 26%. The volume of short messages sent through mobile phones amounted to 190.62 billion pieces in the first eight months of this year.

According to statistics, China racked up 418.63 billion yuan (US$51.7 billion) of revenue from telecom and postal services in the January-August period, up 11.1% year on year. This included 380.82 billion yuan from telecom services, up 11.4%; and 37.82 billion yuan from postal services, up 8.2%.

(Asia Pulse/XIC)

 

 
 



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