China added over 67 million mobile phone subscribers in 2006

• Posted: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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• Author: pradhana
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• Filed under: Broadband, Market Survey

Adam Hwang, DigiTimes.com

There were 461.08 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end December, an on year increase of 17.20% for the whole of 2006 by 67.68 million subscribers, according to statistics published on January 22 on the Chinese-language web site of China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII).

The number of mobile subscribers in China at the end of December grew by 6.05 million from a month earlier. Also at the end of December, there were there 367.81 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China.

Last month, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 40.55 billion short messages, averaging 2.86 short messages per phone number a day.

The number of xDSL subscribers expanded by 10.58 million in 2006, representing a growth of 25.6% from the end of 2005. As of December 2006, xDSL is used by 37.12 million users out of 51.90 million broadband users. While dial-up (narrowband) users is about 26.42 million and dedicated lines 62,136 million (Source: MII, compiled by DigiTimes.com, January 2007)

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