China mobile phone user base at over 531 million in October 2007

Press release, November 28; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 28 November 2007]

There were 531.45 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of October 2007, growing by 1.55% on month and by 18.36% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on its Chinese-language website on November 27.

The number of subscribers at the end of October accounted for 39.9% of the country's population (user density), according to the the MII.

Also at the end of last month were there 370.68 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 28.3%.

In October of this year, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 52.61 billion short messages, averaging 3.22 short messages per phone number a day.

Source: MII, compiled by Digitimes, November 2007