There were 756.6 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of January 2010, growing by 1.23% on month and by 16.45% on year, according to statistics from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The number of subscribers accounted for 56.3% of the country's population (user density).
In January, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 66.53 billion short messages, averaging 2.85 short messages per phone number a day, the MIIT figures show.
As of the end of January there were 311.76 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 23.6%, according to MIIT.
China market: Internet-access user base, January 2010
| Internet-access mode | Number of subscribers | |
| Dial-up (narrow band) | 7.11 million | |
| Dedicated line | 98,855 | |
| Broadband | xDSL | 86.14 million (Y/Y 24.68%) |
| Aggregate | 105.13 million (Y/Y 24.22%) | |
