Asia Express - Mobile Communications
Chinese Telephone Subscribers to Top 820mln in 2006
December 21, 2005

According to China's MII (Ministry of Information Industry), Chinese handset users will reach 390 million in 2005 and 440 million in 2006, while fixed-line users will amount to 350 million and 380 million for 2005 and 2006, respectively. Among the mobile service subscribers, 66.8% use China Mobile's services, 24.6% subscribe to China Unicom's GSM service, and 8.6% to China Unicom's CDMA service. For fixed-line users, China Telecom accounts for 60.9%, China Netcom for 34.6%, and China Railcom for 4.4%.