China has become the first country in the globe to have more than 1 billion mobile phone subscribers, according to government statistics. It has reached 951.6 million October last year with additional 39 million users per quarter.Based on that and recent growth rates, the total number of users has surpassed a billion sometime during this month. We can say it’s around 74 percent of its total population — 1.35 billion people — owns a mobile phone.To read this Techwire Asia report in full, see:
www.techwireasia.com/2118/china-worlds-biggest-mobile-phone-population-but-still-has-plenty-of-room-to-grow/Also see:China’s Mobile Masses Top One Billion
China, the world’s most populous nation, has long been its largest mobile market as well.Now it has claimed a new title: First country in the world to reach one billion mobile phone subscribers.
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