China's mobile phone users exceed 500m
Ceis, Beijing
The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced Monday that the number of China's mobile phone users had reached 501.64 million by the end of June, which means every 100 Chinese people had 38.3 handsets.Official figures showed that the nation's mobile users increased by 40.56 million from the end of last year, 6.76 million a month on average. The total number of short text messages sent by cell phones amounted to 279 billion, up 37.5 percent year on year.
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