Mobile Data Shores up China Mobile

China Mobile reported a 6.51% year-on-year increase in operating revenues in the second quarter to 169.85 billion Chinese yuan (27.61 billion US dollars). Although voice revenue in the first half of 2014 declined 5.3% and messaging revenue 13.2%, wireless data traffic revenue rose 51.8% and now represents 24.2% of revenue from telecommunications services. 

China Mobile said it now has 410,000 4G base stations, covering more than 300 cities and serving 13.94 million customers. customers reached 13.94 million  It aims to increase the number of 4G base stations to 500,000 by the end of the year and the number of 4G customers to 50 million. source: China Mobile presentation