China mobile phone user base increases to nearly 687 million in May 2009

There were 686.95 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of May 2009, growing by 1.20% on month and by 16.01% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers at the end of May accounted for 50.7% of the country's population (user density).

As of the end of May there were 331.54 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 25.3%.

In May 2009, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 64.32 billion short messages, averaging 3.04 per phone number a day.

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