There are 84.5 million users of mobile internet in China, which means 30 per cent of Chinese internet users surf the internet by mobile phone, said Yang Zemin, official from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on October 14.
Yang said the number of phone subscribers was 354 million by the end of August, 2008, decreased for the first time by 11 million. However, the number of subscriber of mobile phone was 616 million, up by 68.7 million from January to August this year.
It is said that the number of internet users will increase to 275 million, of whom 234 million are users of wide-band networks.
He also said the total value of Chinese telecom market was 1.468 trillion yuan in the first 8 month of 2008, up by 24 per cent than the same period of last year. The revenue of the telecom was 540 billion yuan, up by 8.5 per cent.
By People's Daily Online
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