Press: China’s 3G users reached 13 million in 2009
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China’s total users of third-generation mobile technology, which allows fast Internet access from mobile devices, reached 13.25 million at the end of last year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in statement Wednesday. That included 5.51 million users of the locally developed 3G technology known as TD-SCDMA, the ministry said.
China Mobile Ltd., the country’s largest telecommunications carrier by users, had 3.41 million users of the TD standard at the end of last year, according to data on its Web site. The additional TD users likely belong to its unlisted parent, China Mobile Communications Corp., which said total TD users had exceeded 5 million at the end of last year.
MIIT’s data also imply China Telecom Corp., which doesn’t publicly disclose a figure, had 5.0 million 3G users at the end of December.
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. said last week it had 2.74 million 3G users at the end of last year.
