There were 633.84 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of November 2008, growing by 1.05% on month and by 17.51% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) at its Chinese-language web site.
The number of subscribers at the end of Novemer accounted for 47.3% of the country's population (user density).
Also at the end of Novemer 2008 there were 348.48 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 26.8%.
In November 2008, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 56.87 billion short messages, averaging 3.01 short messages per phone number a day.
| China's Internet-access user base | ||
| Internet-access mode | Number of subscribers at end of November 2008 | |
| Dial-up (narrow band) | 14.62 million | |
| Dedicated line | 63,287 | |
| Broadband | xDSL | 66.66 million (Y/Y 30.65%) |
| Aggregate | 83.38 million (Y/Y 27.12%) | |
Source: MIIT, compiled by Digitimes, January 2009
Article translated by Adam Hwang
