MIIT Announces July 2008 Statistics
Marbridge Consulting, 8/26/08
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released its July 2008 telecom industry statistics. The figures for the month were as follows:
Telecom revenues were RMB 69.0 bln (USD 10.2 bln), bringing the cumulative year-to-date total to RMB 467.8 bln (USD 68.8 bln), up 9.1% over the same 7-month period of 2007.
Mobile subscribers grew by 7.6 mln to 608.4 mln. A total of 402 bln SMS messages were sent during the first seven months of the year, a 22.4% increase YoY.
Fixed-line (including PHS) growth was negative for the twelfth consecutive month, with total subscribers dropping by under 1.3 mln to 355.1 mln. Broken down by traditional fixed line and PHS, the PHS subscriber base declined for the fourteenth straight month, with a net loss of less than 0.8 mln subs, dropping the total to nearly 77.0 mln. Traditional (i.e. non-PHS) fixed-line subscribers decreased slightly, by 500,000, to 278.1 mln.
Broadband added over 1.8 mln new registered users to reach 77.8 mln, while dial-up Internet access lost 430,000 users, dropping to 15.5 mln.
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Keywords: PHS subscribers market size 2008 broadband dial-up fixed-line fixed-line subscribers Internet Internet access MIIT mobile subscribers PHS registered users SMS statistics
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