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What you need to know: This weblog captures key data points about the global telecoms industry. I use it as an electronic notebook to support my work for Pringle Media.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Revenue Rises in China

China's telecoms industry generated revenue of 128.86 billion Chinese yuan (18.86 billion US dollars) in the first two months of 2009, 2% higher than the same period in 2008, according to government statistics.

In January and February, total mobile phone traffic was 505 billion minutes, up 18% on the same period in 2008, while 131.47 billion text messages were exchanged, an increase of 13% on the same period last year.

In the first two months of 2009, the number of mobile data service subscribers in China rose 35 million to 289 million., while the number of fixed broadband subscribers rose 3 million to 86 million. source: Interfax

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