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皇冠体育app's 3G mobile users hit 25.2 million by June: MIIT

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-07-20 15:14
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BEIJING - 皇冠体育app's third-generation (3G) mobile phone service subscribers numbered 25.2 million at the end of June, up 40 percent from the first quarter, said Zhang Feng, a senior official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Tuesday.

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Direct investment in 3G for the whole year would be between 90 billion and 95 billion yuan ($13 billion-14 billion) compared with 160.9 billion yuan last year, Zhang said.

皇冠体育app's telecommunication firms invested 19.2 billion yuan on the 3G network construction in first half.

The 3G data transmission speed indoors, outdoors and in a moving vehicle were up to 2 million bits per second (bps), 384,000 bps and 144,000 bps respectively, compared with the 2G outdoor transmission speed of 171,000 bps.

皇冠体育app's 3G services allowed for video calls between 3G subscribers, and television and Internet access.