China's mobile phone user base rose to 426.37 million at end of June
There were 426.37 million subscribers to mobile communication services in China
There were 426.37 million subscribers to mobile communication services in China, as of the end of last month, an increase of 5.55 million from a month earlier and accounting for 32.7% of the country's population, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on July 24, on its Chinese-language web site.
As well, at the end of June were there 365.30 million subscribers to fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 28.0 %.
Last month, mobile-phone subscribers in China sent 35.01 billion short messages, averaging 2.75 short messages per phone number a day.
| China's Internet-access user bases | |
| Internet-access mode | Number of subscribers at end of June 2006 |
| Dial-up (narrow band) | 30.80 million |
| Dedicated lines | 71,857 |
| Broadband | 45.06 million (of which 32.03 million used xDSL) |
