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Friday, December 3, 2010

China 3G Subscribers Reach 39 Mln; 295.7 % rise Over last Year


China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has revealed that as of the end of October 2010, China had reached 38.64 mln 3G mobile subscribers which is 295.7 rise ( almost 3 times ) from last year. The number of 3G users of each of China’s top three telecommunication operators, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, exceeded 10 million by the end of October, the MIIT data showed.
Out of total 39 miln user, 10 mln were China Telecom CDMA2000 EV-DO subscribers, 16.98 mln were China Mobile TD-SCDMA subscribers, and 11.66 mln were China Unicom WCDMA subscribers. TD-SCDMA users accounted for 43.9% of total 3G subscribers, with the total number of new 3G users in 2010 to date reaching 25.38 mln.
China Mobile, with 575 million subscribers as of the end of October, now is the world's largest mobile carrier.
China’s telecommunication industry reported RMB 744.8 billion (US$109.53 billion) in revenues during the first ten months of 2010, up 6.6 percent year on year. Business revenue of mobile telecommunications made up 69.84 percent of the total, while fixed-line revenues accounted for 30.16 percent, dropping 3.2 percentage points year on year, the MIIT added.

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