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Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: mobile phone users exceed 940 million

China’s mobile phone operators had 81.08 million new subscribers in the first eight months of 2011, bringing their total number of users to a record high of 940.09 million, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said recently […]

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Intellectual Property: Shanzhai Phones’ Declining Popularity in China

The word shanzhai has several meanings. Originally it meant a fortified mountain village, but these days it mainly refers to small, illegal factories that churn out copies of famous-brand mobile phones. In the era of relatively simple 2G phones, the industry was huge, but now everyone wants a fancy 3G smartphone, and they’re a bit too hard to fake, leaving an uncertain future for this hidden industry […]

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Chinese People & their Mobile Phones: Fixed Lines losing ground to Mobile Phones

More and more Chinese are disconnecting fixed-line telephones and turning to mobile phones for communication, according to statistics released by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology […]

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Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: number of users hit 786.5 million

According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of mobile phone users in China reached 786.5 million at the end of April/2010 […]

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Internet in China: scale ranks first worldwide, reaching 360 million users

As the end of November, 2009, the number of Internet users in China had reached 360 million, an increase of 20.8 percent on last year. The figure marks China as having the most extensive Internet in terms of scale in the world […]

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Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: 2.1 billion short messages sent per day in 2009

Short messages (SMS) sent by Chinese people in 2009 rose 8.4 percent year-on-year to 784.04 billion, or 2.1 billion per day on average, the Beijing Times reported recently citing a source with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology […]

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Internet in China: 3G brings mobile porn, China launches cleanup

Beijing has called for a cleanup of mobile porn Web sites nationwide on recently, with government officials blaming their rise on high-speed mobile data services enabled by the launch of new technology […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Passenger car sales peak in October/2009

China’s automobile market continued its robust growth in October, with passenger vehicle sales clocking a year-on-year growth of 79.6 percent, and provided enough indications that China is well on its way to occupy the top perch as the largest automobile market in the world […]

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Internet in China: broadband users top 99.33 million

China added 16.45 million broadband users in the first nine months of 2009, bringing the total to 99.33 million, data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently showed […]

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Internet in China: ban on use of virtual money for real goods trading

China has unveiled the first official regulation, banning the use of virtual currency in trade of real goods and services to limit its possible impact on the nation’s real financial system […]