A mobile phone user follows trading at the stock market/XINHUA
BEIJING, May 23 – China’s mobile phone users hit a record high of 1.03 billion at the end of April, data released Wednesday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) showed.
During the first four months this year, mobile phone users saw a net increase of nearly 43.8 million from the end of last year, the data showed.
Meanwhile, users of terminals based on third-generation technologies increased 30.55 million during the period, reaching 159 million as of the end of April.
During the first four months, the country’s telecom sector reported 339 billion yuan ($53.6 billion) in main business revenues, up 10.1 percent year-on-year.
Revenues from mobile telecommunication services accounted for 72.6 percent of the sector’s total revenues during the period, up from 70.8 percent in the same period last year, the data showed.
About The Author
Xinhua News Agency, founded on November 7, 1931, is China’s national news agency as well as a global news and information network. Xinhua has set up a global news and information gathering network, with headquarters in Beijing, 33 domestic bureaus in provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities plus the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, as well as 140 bureaus in the rest of the world. Xinhua is yet to set up a bureau in Taiwan, where it has posted resident correspondents. Xinhua provides its worldwide subscribers with news and financial information products in the forms of text, photo, graphics, audio, video, and mobile phone text messages 24 hours a day in eight languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese.