01 Oct 08 China Has 616 Million Mobile Subscribers

China is the major market in the world for basically anything. With a good product and a good marketing campaign, your company can make lots of money of the Chinese market. In the cell phone business that appears to be the case. It looks like the total number of mobile subscribers in China has gone up significantly and it reached 616.02 million subscribers by the end of August. That’s twice the population of the USA. Even Europe doesn’t have as many cell phone users as China.

That number is only 45.6% of the whole population which means more and more subscribers will join Chinese carriers looking for mobile services. The number of cell phone users grew by 1.26% per month or 19.46% per year according to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The number of fixed landlines users is a little over half of the number of mobile subscribers. 354.07 million people use traditional phones.

About 1 in 2 people uses a cell phone while about 1 in 4 people uses a regular line in China. And since we’re expanding our general knowledge about the Chinese cell phone business here’s a fun fact. In August only about 57.31 billion text messages have been sent. I’ll let you translate it in dollars per day.

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Tags: China, Mobile News