Telecom Operators Announce May 2010 Subscriber Totals
Marbridge Consulting, 6/21/10
China's three main telecom operators have announced their subscriber totals for May 2010.
May saw the net addition of approximately 9.58 mln new mobile subscribers. China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) added almost 4.77 mln new mobile subscribers, pushing the operator's total mobile user base to over 548.98 mln, of which a total of 9.32 mln subscribers used China Mobile's TD-SCDMA terminals during the month.
China Unicom (NYSE: CHU; 0762.HK; 600050.SH) added over 0.76 mln new GSM subs, bringing its total GSM user base to approximately 148.76 mln, and added over 1.02 mln subscribers to its WCDMA 3G network, for a total of nearly 6.53 mln WCDMA users.
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) added 3.02 mln CDMA subs, taking its total to 71.50 mln.
Of total new mobile subs added in May, China Mobile took 49.81%, dropping its share of China's total mobile user base to 70.77%.
China Telecom lost 1.07 mln fixed-line subs, reducing its total to 181.96 mln, while China Unicom lost 0.51 mln fixed-line subs dropping its total to nearly 101.13 mln.
China Telecom and Unicom enjoyed positive growth in broadband, with China Telecom adding 0.8 mln new broadband subs to reach 57.45 mln, and China Unicom adding nearly 0.83 mln to reach almost 42.93 mln.
Keywords: wireless China Telecom China Mobile China Unicom telecom mobile subscribers 3G CDMA GSM CHL TD-SCDMA WCDMA 0728.HK 0762.HK 0941.HK 600050.SH CHA CHU broadband subscribers fixed-line subscribers
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