China’s SMS Volume Reaches 897.31 Billion, An Increase Of About Mere 2.1%

According to the recent statistics provided by the Ministry of Industry 2012, the mobile SMS Volume in the China has reached 897.31 billion, an increase of about 2.1% while the country’s mobile phone users increased by 11% last year calculating the country’s 2012 per capita sent down by about 9%, Sina Tech reports.

The statistics states that SMS amount reached last year 897.31 billion, but MMS volume reached 69.67 billion, an increase of 16.2% with the net increase of 64 million people in 2012 the number of mobile phone users reached 420 million, accounting for 74.5% of the total number of internet users, the rural netizens net increase of 20 million people, 156 million people.

Online shopping a net increase of 48 million users, with a total size of 242 million while the microblogging users a net increase of 059 million, with a total size of 309 million. The statistics further revealed that the non-voice revenue was 532.21 billion yuan, an increase of 16.9% while the voice business revenues of 544.09 billion yuan.

Source: By Karan Chopra on 28th January 2013

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

China: Guangdong Mobile Sends 30 Million Warning Texts for Typhoon

Wow! 30 millions warning texts were sent as reminders to the subscribers to be extra careful about the storm, allowing the people to take precaution steps. At least it increases the awareness of the citizens though the storm can't be stopped.

As China’s southeast deals with the aftermath of tropical storm/typhoon Vicente, Guangdong Mobile (the local division of China Mobile) has revealed that it sent 30 million warning texts about the storm to subscribers in five cities, in cooperation with the provincial government. Mobile users in Shenzhen, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, and Yunfu received reminders to be careful from the telecom company because those five cities were forecast to be most affected by the storm.

The news comes as Beijing’s government is being asked awkward questions about why it didn’t cooperate with telecom operators to warn mobile users about this past Saturday’s deadly rainstorm, which led to nearly forty deaths in the capital (and allegations that the real death toll might be much higher). As we reported yesterday, Beijing’s Meteorological Bureau claims it would have been impossible to send text message warnings to Beijing’s 20 million residents because its mass texting system is far too slow.

But China’s telecoms say that if the government had authorized them to send warning texts, there would have been no technological issues. All three major telecom providers in Beijing —China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom — have now announced publicly that they would have no technical problems sending warning text messages to their entire networks within a short period of time. However, as China Telecom said yesterday, the companies are not legally permitted to send messages like that without the authorization of the relevant government organs.

The Guangdong government’s successful cooperation with its local telecoms just days after Beijing’s rainpocalypse certainly throws the Beijing government’s failure to do into sharp relief, coming as it does while families are still burying victims of the storm and many Beijing denizens are dealing with severe damage to their homes and property. The rain, of course, was going to cause damage and take lives whether text messages were sent or not. But how many lives might have been saved? How many ruined cars might have been moved to higher ground?

Source: By C. Custer on 24 July 2012.

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China - China Mobile says total subscribers rose to 638.89 million in October

China is a big potential market, having the first ranking for the population. Imagine how big is the market in China?

China Mobile Ltd, China's largest mobile carrier, said on Monday that its total mobile subscribers increased to 638.89 million in October, including 45.33 million 3G subscribers.

China Mobile said on its website that 3G subscribers rose by 2.17 million in October, while total users increased by 5.37 million.

Source: Reporting by Christina Lo; Editing by Chris Lewis on 21st November 2011.

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China - China's mobile subscribers rise 1.2% to 927.3 mln in Aug

(Reuters) - China, the world's largest mobile phone market, saw a 1.17 percent monthly increase in total number of mobile subscribers to 927.26 million in August, data from the country's three telecom operators showed.

China Mobile , the country's largest mobile carrier, said its mobile subscribers in August increased to 627.63 million, including 40.32 million 3G subscribers.

China Unicom , the No. 2 carrier, said mobile subscribers rose to 186.1 million, including 27.87 million 3G subscribers.

Mobile subscribers at China Telecom , the smallest of the three operators, increased to 113.53 million, including 25.61 million for 3G subscribers.

(Reporting by Christina Lo; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/20/china-mobile-idUKL3E7KK0B720110920 on 20th September 2011.

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China - Developing the mobile marketing community in China

Yanping Hu and Tony Chen will guide and oversee the Mobile Marketing Association’s (MMA) China Local Council and its industry initiatives.

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) is a global non-profit trade association dedicated to lead the growth of mobile marketing and its associated technologies.

The association elected Hu, founder and president of DCCI, and Chen, managing director of Interaction, GroupM China, at the first China Local Council membership meeting in Shanghai. Held on 30 August 2011, this meeting was attended by representatives of 40 organisations in the mobile marketing industry including Aegis Media and Coca-Cola.

Hu and Chen will also be a part of the MMA Regional Leadership Committee, the collaborating body across the Asia Pacific. In this role, both will synchronise their efforts with the MMA’s regional board of directors to design future strategies.

Sustainable ecosystem

Launched in April 2011, the China Local Council was established to address the needs of the mobile marketing community in the country.

The MMA China Local Council aims to work closely with service carriers, application developers, brands, agencies and other important partners, in order to build a sustainable ecosystem for the mobile marketing industry in China.

The organisation also aims to be the leading association for China-wide consultation on key industry issues including measurement and metrics, mobile advertising guidelines, codes of conduct and consumer best practices.

“We are very happy to see the evolution of the mobile marketing industry through this initiative and look forward to working closely to help build the industry,” said Rohit Dadwal, managing director, Mobile Marketing Association, Asia Pacific.

“The Chinese mobile market is the world’s largest mobile market and is still growing at a staggering rate. Over 920 million people in the country now own mobile phones and over 318 million people now use mobile phones to access the Internet, which offers tremendous potential for the growth of mobile advertising and marketing. The rich content offerings possible through mobile Internet could make mobile the connective tissue for all mediums of advertising and marketing.

Source: http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=8CFAA529-1A64-6A71-CE62EFE0F6791E81
by Anuradha Shukla on 7th September 2011.

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