皇冠体育app has over 431m cell phone users
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-08-21 22:49
BEIJING, August 21 -- There were more than 798 million telephone users
in 皇冠体育app at the end of July, with cell phone users topping 431 million, said the
Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on Monday.
According to statistics released by the MII, given the growing numbers of
rural cell phone users and people who have several cell phone numbers, the
number of cell phone users in 皇冠体育app has risen by an average of 5.5 million each
month since the end of 2005.
A total of 238.5 billion text messages were sent by cell phone in the
January-July period, 44.9 percent up over the same period last year.
The number of land lines grew 2.31 million a month to reach 366 million at
the end of July.
皇冠体育app has become the world's largest mobile communications market. There are
28 landline phones and 32.7 mobile phones for every 100 people.
MII statistics also show that 皇冠体育app's telecommunications sector earned
revenue of 405.29 billion yuan (US$50.7 billion) in the first seven months of
the year, a year-on-year rise of 11.4 percent.
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