China: the world's largest mobile phone market

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China has become the world's largest mobile communications market. According to statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the…

China has become the world's largest mobile communications market. According to statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the number of cell phone users in China has risen by an average of 5.5 million each month since the end of 2005. The number of mobile phone users in China has grown to more than 431 million by mid-2006, which is a 44.9% increase over the same period in 2005.

Text messaging showed the highest rate of growth, increasing by 44.9% in July 2006 compared with the same period in 2005. The MII says that between January and July 2006, a total of 238.5 billion text messages were sent.

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