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• 06.26.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: over 592 million users by the end of May/2008
  
  "The mobile phone subscribers in China soared to 592 million by the end of May/2008, nearly half of its 1.3 billion population. The number rose by 44.8 million in the first five months of this year as mobile operators cut phone rates to attract customers, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing the Ministry of Information Industry. It said the number of fixed-line accounts fell by 6.5 million to 358 million. The fixed-line users, however, dropped by 6.5 million to 358 million..."  read on
  
  posted in industry, china, trends, mobile
• 05.30.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: 6 Telecoms to Merge Their Assets
  
  "China has told its six telecommunications companies to merge their assets, allowing fixed-line carriers to expand into wireless services and creating three operators that will offer phone and Internet connections to 1.3 billion people. Under the plan, the parent of China Telecom will buy a mobile phone network from the parent of China Unicom, which in turn will merge with the company that controls the China Netcom Group, the Ministry of Industry and Information said in a statement on Saturday. China will issue three third-generation wireless licenses after the overhaul is completed, it said..."  read on
  
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• 04.30.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: junk text message nearly doubles in 2007
  
  "About 353.8 billion junk text messages were sent in China in 2007, 92.7 percent year-on-year, the anti-spam committee of the Internet Society of China said recently. Illegal and fraudulent messages accounted for 49.7 percent, while ads made up 45.48 percent. Group spam companies accounted for 36.67 percent of the total, service provider firms made up 32.18 percent and net operators 20.75 percent. At the end of 2007, China's cell-phone users topped 500 million."  read on
  
  posted in china, information technology, trends, mobile, internet
• 04.26.08 Chinese media revenue to reach 77 billion US dollars in 2008
  
  "Chinese media industry revenue is expected to increase 13.1 percent to 554 billion yuan (about 79.14billion U.S. dollars) in 2008, said a report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently. The figure was 481.1 billion yuan (over 68 billion US dollars) in 2007, up 13.6 percent year on year, according to the report, which was based on data collected up to February 2008. Mobile and online media saw rapid growth, earning a revenue of 105.3 billion yuan (around 15 billion US dollars) and 29.7 billion yuan (almost 5 billion US dollars) in 2007..."  read on
  
  posted in china, industry, trends, advertising, mobile, media, internet
• 04.09.08 Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: over 555 million mobile phone users
  
  "The number of new mobile subscribers hit a record high of 8.48 million in January, taking Chinese total mobile users to exceed 555 million, accounting for 41.6% of the country's population (user density), sending over 54 billion short messages, averaging 3.17 per phone number a day. The continuous falling of handset prices and user charges has directly led to a sharp increase in the number of mobile phone subscribers, Wang Lijian, a spokesman with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) told Xinhua on recently..."  read on
  
  posted in population, market, china, information technology, consumer behavior, trends, mobile
• 04.05.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: China starts 3G commercial trials in 8 cities
  
  "The parent of China Mobile (0941.HK: Quote, Profile, Research), the country's top wireless operator, have started commercial trials of a homegrown third-generation wireless standard, TD-SCDMA, in eight cities on April 1, state media said recently. Shares in several Hong Kong-listed equipment vendors, including China Communications Services Corp Ltd (0552.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) and China Wireless Technologies Ltd (2369.HK: Quote, Profile, Research), rose on Friday, as investors anticipate heavy spending on telecoms gear. The commercial trials will help to improve TD-SCDMA technology, as well as provide better mobile services during the Beijing Olympics, according to Xinhua News agency."  read on
  
  posted in hong kong, industry, market, beijing, shanghai, information technology, china, wireless, mobile
• 02.24.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: Metrics on Mobile Media Consumption in China
  
  "According to latest data from the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry, there were about 550 million mobile subscribers in China by the end of 2007. Mobile handsets will undoubtedly become the most used media consumption device among Chinese users, if it is not yet. M:Metrics recently released its study on mobile media consumption in China. According to M:Metrics’ December Benchmark Survey, mobile entertainment is popular among the Chinese, with an astonishing 34.8 percent reporting they listened to mobile music in the month, much higher than other countries studied by M:Metrics..."  read on
  
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• 02.13.08 Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: sending 17 billion text messages during Spring Festival
  
  "Chinese mobile phone operators will benefit from the country's tradition of exchanging greetings during Lunar New Year as more than 17 billion text messages are expected to be sent during the holiday season, a possible new record, according to the Ministry of Information Industry. The ministry attributed the drastic rise to rapid expansion of mobile phone users which totaled 547 million by the end of 2007, about 41.6 percent of the total population..."  read on
  
  posted in china, industry, information technology, trends, economics, wealth, mobile
• 02.13.08 China’s phone subscribers to hit 976 million in 2008
  
  "China's phone subscribers, mobile and fixed line combined, are expected to grow by more than 60 million in 2008 to hit a total of 976 million, according to the Ministry of Information Industry. By the end of this year, China's fixed-line and mobile phone subscribers will account for 27.1 percent and 46.4 percent of the population, respectively. The continuous falling of mobile communication charges has directly led to a sharp increase in mobile phone subscribers and some people even replaced their fixed-lines with mobile phones. In 2007, China's mobile phone subscribers increased by 86.22 million, while fixed-line subscribers fell by 2.33 million..."  read on
  
  posted in china, information technology, trends, wealth, mobile
• 01.14.08 Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: 40% of the Population Uses Mobile Phones
  
  "According to a recent report by the Ministry of Information Industry, at the end of November/2007, the number of China's mobile phone users had increased by 78.3 million compared with the number at the end of last year. There are 7.1 million more users each month and now a total of 539 million mobile phone users. One-way phone charges are being carried out nationwide, and the mobile phone fees are dropping. As a result, there has been a drastic increase in mobile phone use..."  read on
  
  posted in china, information technology, trends, consumer behavior, mobile

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