November mobile phone users grow to 1.104 billion, says MIIT

Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Tuesday 25 December 2012]

There were 1.104 billion subscribers to mobile communication services in China as of the end of November 2012, growing by 0.80% on month and by 13.21% on year, and 220.49 million (19.97%) of them were 3G users, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers at the end of November accounted for 80.6% of the country's population.

Also, there were 279.38 million subscribers to fixed telephone services in China at the end of November.

In November 2012, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 70.28 billion text messages, averaging 2.13 text messages per phone number a day.

MIIT: China Internet-access user base, November 2012
Internet-access mode		Number of subscribers
Dial-up		5.72 million
Broadband	xDSL	119.42 million (Y/Y 4.11%)
	Aggregate	174.03 million (Y/Y 12.21%)

Source: MIIT, compiled by Digitimes, December 2012