China - now has over 200 million 3G subscribers

China added 10.08 million new 3G subscribers September to reach a total 3G user base of 202.64 million,China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said.

Telecom operating revenues were 106.36 billion yuan ($16.83 billion), bringing the cumulative year-to-date total to 895.27 billion yuan ($141.66 billion), up 12.1% over the same period of 2011.

Mobile subscribers grew by 12.50 million to 1.085 billion, and fixed-line subscribers dropped by 0.24 million to 281.94 million.

A total of 79.03 billion SMS messages were sent during September, bringing the total for the first 9 months of 2012 to 676.61 billion, a 3.6% increase over the figure during the same period of 2011.

Broadband added 2.28 million new registered users in September to reach a total of 170.57 million. Dial-up increased by 1.03 million users, lifting the total dial-up user base to 5.73 million.

Source: By  Tony Zhu on 24th October 2012