China Telcos Announce December 2012 Subscriber Totals
Marbridge Consulting, 1/21/13
China's three main telecom operators have announced their subscriber totals for December 2012.
December saw the net addition of 8.71 mln new mobile subscribers. China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) added 3.03 mln new mobile subscribers, pushing the operator's total mobile user base to 710.30 mln, of which a total of 87.93 mln subscribers used China Mobile's TD-SCDMA terminals during the month. China Mobile added 5.50 mln new TD-SCDMA subscribers in December.
China Unicom (NYSE: CHU; 0762.HK; 600050.SH) saw a net addition of 3.10 mln new mobile subscribers during the month, bringing its total to 239.31 mln, of which 162.86 mln were GSM subscribers, and 76.46 mln were WCDMA subscribers. China Unicom lost 36,000 GSM subscribers for the first time and gained 3.13 mln new WCDMA subscribers in December.
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) saw a net addition of 2.58 mln new mobile subs, taking its total to 160.62 mln, of which 69.05 mln were CDMA2000 EV-DO subscribers and 91.57 mln were CDMA subs. China Telecom added 3.20 mln new CDMA2000 EV-DO subscribers and lost 620,000 CDMA subs in December.
Of the combined total of 233.43 mln 3G subs, China Mobile holds 37.67%, China Unicom 32.75%, and China Telecom 29.58%. Of total new mobile subs added in December, China Mobile took 34.80%, dropping its share of China's total mobile user base to 63.98%. China Unicom's share of the total mobile user base increased for the 23rd straight month, rising from 21.44% at the end of November to 21.56% at the end of December, while China Telecom's share increased for the 48th straight month, rising from 14.35% at the end of November to 14.47% at the end of December.
China Telecom lost 1.04 mln fixed-line subs, reducing its total to 163.00 mln, and China Unicom lost 465,000 fixed-line subs, decreasing its total to 91.96 mln.
China Telecom added 1.04 mln new broadband subscribers to reach 90.12 mln, and China Unicom gained 93,000 new broadband subs to reach 63.87 mln.
Keywords: China Telecom China Mobile China Unicom 2012 telecom mobile subscribers 3G broadband subscribers CDMA GSM CHL TD-SCDMA WCDMA 0728.HK 0762.HK 0941.HK 600050.SH CHA CHU CDMA2000 EV-DO fixed-line subscribers market share national statistics
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