Billion mobile subscribers in China; still below world average

05.03.2012 [16:16]
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Baku, March 5 (AZERTAC). By the estimate of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the world's most populous nation now has more than a billion mobile phone subscribers.

Now, a billion mobile users is nothing to sneeze at, but the People’s Republic has 1.3 billion people, which means a little more than three-quarters of its citizens have an active mobile phone. Interestingly, that’s actually a few percentage points below the global average - nearly 80 percent of the worldwide population has a mobile phone, according to the latest estimates by Gartner and the Census Bureau, which track worldwide mobile subscriptions and population, respectively.

Assuming the MIIT’s prediction was accurate, China’s mobile market has now shot past that mark.

That’s some incredible growth. Recall that China had surpassed the 500 million mobile-phone users milestone in 2007, which means its mobile market, has doubled in the last five years alone.

Billion mobile subscribers in China; still below world average

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