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500 mln cellphone users mark China's 20th anniversary of mobile
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17:01, July 20, 2007 |
In 1987, when China introduced its first mobile telecommunications equipment, there were little more than 700 users. In 2001, its mobile phone subscriptions passed the 100-million mark, the largest in the world, and the figure turned to 300 million in May 2004, 400 million in Jan. 2006 and now 500 million in July 2007.
The trend shows no sign of stopping as China still has a vast rural market to tap and city dwellers'' appetite for more vogue, media-rich and web-accessible handsets continues to boom.
To cash in on the momentum, manufacturers, such as Nokia of Finland and Motorola of the United States, keep churning out low-cost phones and mobile phone operators like China Mobile and China Unicom cut call charges.
Beijing Mobile, a subsidiary of the country''s biggest wireless carrier China Mobile, began operation early this month. Incoming calls will be free to all its customers from Aug. 1.
The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) earlier this year extended pre-commercial testing of its home-grown TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) standard to 10 cities from the original five, while approving the use of European standard WCDMA and American CDMA to boost competition.
Source: Xinhua
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