China market: Over 702 million mobile phone users in July 2009, says MIIT

There were 702.65 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of July 2009, growing by 1.07% on month and by 15.50% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The number of subscribers at the end of July accounted for 52.5% of the country's population (user density).

At the end of July there were 327.94 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 24.9%.

In July 2009, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 63.79 billion short messages, averaging 2.94 per phone number a day.