China's Telcos Announce September 2010 Subscriber Totals
Marbridge Consulting, 10/20/10
China's three main telecom operators have announced their subscriber totals for September 2010.
September saw the net addition of approximately 10.29 mln new mobile subscribers. China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) added 5.40 mln new mobile subscribers, pushing the operator's total mobile user base to 569.76 mln, of which 15.28 mln subscribers used China Mobile's TD-SCDMA terminals during the month.
China Unicom (NYSE: CHU; 0762.HK; 600050.SH) added 0.80 mln new GSM subscribers, bringing its total GSM user base to 151.51 mln, and added 1.04 mln subscribers to its WCDMA 3G network, for a total of 10.55 mln WCDMA users.
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) added 3.04 mln CDMA subs, taking its total to 82.98 mln.
Of total new mobile subs added in September, China Mobile took 52.51%, dropping its share of China's total mobile user base to 69.93%.
China Telecom lost 0.79 mln fixed-line subs, reducing its total to 178.28 mln, while China Unicom lost 0.41 mln fixed-line subs dropping its total to 99.7 mln. China Telecom and Unicom saw positive growth in broadband, with China Telecom adding 1.01 mln new broadband subs to reach 61.07 mln, and China Unicom adding 0.62 mln to reach 45.98 mln.
Keywords: national statistics 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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