There were 747.38 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of December 2009, growing 1.19% on month and 16.55% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The number of subscribers at the end of December accounted for 56.3% of the country's population (user density).
Also at the end of December there were 313.69 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 23.6%.
In December, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 67.34 billion text messages, averaging 2.92 messages per phone number a day.
China market: Internet-access user base, December 2009
Internet-access mode
Number of subscribers
Dial-up
8.71 million
Dedicated line
98,855
Broadband
xDSL
83.90 million (Y/Y 25.17%)
Aggregate
103.23 million (Y/Y 23.74%)
Source: MIIT, compiled by Digitimes, February 2010
