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China claims 400m mobile phone user
(AFP)
Updated: 2006-02-24 16:20
China's mobile phone market, already the world's biggest,
has passed 400 million users, the government said Thursday.
The number of subscribers on the country's mainland rose 5.4 million
in January to 398 million, the Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the
Ministry of Information Industry.
It said that with further growth this month, the total number has hit 400
million by this point, though it didn't give an exact figure.
China set up its first mobile phone network in 1987 and took a decade to
reach 10 million customers. In 2003, the number of mobile phones in China
surpassed that of fixed-line phones.
Xinhua also said mobile phone customers sent 33.8 billion text messages in
January, up 65.7 percent from the same month last year.
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