China is one of the largest markets in the world
for telecom and internet. A few key facts:
- China Mobile, the world's largest mobile
service provider by number of subscribers, added a record 5.6 million
customers in July 2007, up from 5.53 million signups the previous month.
Of the new customers, 5.22 million were prepaid subscribers and 380,000
were contract customers. At the end of July, China Mobile had a total of
337.97 million subscribers . 2007
August
- Mobile phone sales grew 40% to 120 million
units in 2006, compared to the previous year, and sales are likely to
surge 25% this year to 150 million units. In 2006, China produced 450
million handsets, of which 350 million were exported. Last year, the
number of mobile users in China reached 461 million, up 68 million from
2005. China
Mobile Communications Association, Xinhua
2007 March
- The number of new fixed-line
customers continues its gradual decline as China's masses flock to
mobile phones. The mainland's largest fixed-line operator said revenue
was 175 billion yuan, up 3.4 percent from the previous year.
- HK
STANDARD 2007
March
- China has 830m phone users, 132m
online
The number of Chinese fixed and mobile
telephone subscribers has hit 830 million, while 132 million use the
Internet, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, citing
government statistics.
The number of phone subscribers is up by 11
per cent compared with the end of 2005, according to statistics from the
Ministry of Information Industry.
The country's telephone users are expected to
exceed 900 million by the end of 2007, the official news agency said,
citing the ministry. Especially, the number of mobile subscribers is
likely to keep growing rapidly as more people begin to use different
mobile numbers and the rural market for mobile phones continues to open
up, it said.
Meanwhile, the 132 million online users
corresponds to a 19 per cent rise from a year ago. The fast growth of
public and business Internet users has pushed up the business expansion
of e-commerce, Internet advertising and online games in the country,
Xinhua said. - AFP 2006
December
- China will have over 32 million mobile video
users in 2008, driven by interest in the Beijing Olympics. About 27% of
these consumers will use broadcasting technology, and 73% will use
unicast streaming technology. Many are likely to use both. -
Source: ABI Research
2006
- China says number of blogs tops 34
million
BEIJING -
The number of blogs in China has topped 34 million, more than 30 times
as many as the country had four years ago, news reports said on Tuesday.
Some 17.5 million people in China
consider themselves Web log writers, while 55 million regularly read
them, newspapers and the Xinhua News Agency said, citing a report by the
government's China Internet Network Information Centre.
Web logs are hugely popular in China,
where the government controls all media and the Internet offers most
people the only public forum for expressing opinions. Most blogs deal
with pop culture, travel, family matters and other nonpolitical
subjects.
The communist government
promotes Internet use for business and education, but has been
tightening controls on Web content. Dozens of Internet essayists have
been detained after posting political comments online. China has the
world's second-largest population of Internet users after the United
States, with 123 million people online. -- AP
2006 September 26
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78 Million 3G Users by 2008
China will have 440,000 users of 3G (advanced mobile phone
technology) by the end of 2006, but that figure will rise to 78.08
million by 2008, when 3G subscribers will account for 13.7% of the total
mobile telecom subscribers in that country. Operators will begin
construction of 3G networks in China in the second half of this year.
- Source: Analysys
International 2006 September
5
- The number of China's phone subscribers rose to 791 million by the end
of June, including 365 million fixed-line subscribers and 426 million
mobile phone users. - Source: SinoFile
Information Services 2006
- Hong Kong has the
highest mobile phone ownership in Asia/Pacific, according to a survey by
Nielsen Media, while in mainland China, mobile phone penetration has
surpassed the U.S. The Chinese territory has almost reached its
saturation point with over five million mobile phones in the hands of a
total population of 6.9 million, including children.
"With a mobile phone in the possession of almost every Hong Kong
consumer, followed closely behind by Koreans and Singaporeans, the
mobile phone companies are now looking at deepening usage of features
and prompting brand switching," said Helen Pemberton, director of
the company's Media Index division for Asia/Pacific in Hong Kong.
"Korea and China gobbled two-thirds of the region's advertising in
the sector, accounting for nearly $476.9 million in advertising."
The only Asia/Pacific market where Nokia is not the market leader is
Taiwan, where Motorola takes first place with 29% share ahead of Nokia's
26%. To maintain its market leadership in this competitive sector, Nokia
spent close to $194 million in advertising across the nine Asia/Pacific
markets, followed closely
behind by Samsung ($172.5 million) and Motorola ($125.8 million). The ad
spending of these three advertisers combined has accounted for nearly 66
percent of the total ad spend for the mobile phone sector in 2005.
- 2006 July 26 AD
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- China,
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