Telecom Operators Announce June 2010 Subscriber Totals
Marbridge Consulting, 7/20/10
China's three main telecom operators have announced their subscriber totals for June 2010.
June saw the net addition of approximately 9.76 mln new mobile subscribers. China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) added 5.06 mln new mobile subscribers, pushing the operator's total mobile user base to over 554.04 mln, of which a total of 10.46 mln subscribers used China Mobile's TD-SCDMA terminals during the month.
China Unicom (NYSE: CHU; 0762.HK; 600050.SH) added over 0.64 mln new GSM subs, bringing its total GSM user base to approximately 149.40 mln, and added over 1.03 mln subscribers to its WCDMA 3G network, for a total of 7.56 mln WCDMA users.
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) added 3.02 mln CDMA subs, taking its total to 74.52 mln.
Of total new mobile subs added in June, China Mobile took 51.87%, dropping its share of China's total mobile user base to 70.53%.
China Telecom lost 0.89 mln fixed-line subs, reducing its total to 181.07 mln, while China Unicom lost nearly 0.28 mln fixed-line subs dropping its total to approximately 100.85 mln.
China Telecom and Unicom enjoyed positive growth in broadband, with China Telecom adding 0.88 mln new broadband subs to reach 58.33 mln, and China Unicom adding approximately 0.83 mln to reach nearly 43.76 mln.
Keywords: national statistics 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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