China's mobile subscribers number 795.92 mln at end of May - MIIT
Shanghai. July 2. INTERFAX-CHINA - The number of mobile service subscribers in China increased by 48.53 million to reach 795.92 million in the first five months of 2010,while fixed-line subscribers dropped by 7.77 million to305.92millionduring the same period, according to figures released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on July 1.
There were 113.02 million broadband Internet subscribers in Chinaat the end of May, of which 92.01 million were new broadband subscribers added since the end of 2009.
China's telecom industrygenerated total revenue of RMB 1.22 trillion ($181.07billion) over the five-month period, up 21.6 percent year-on-year.
The tables below detail the number of telecom service subscribers in China and a provincial breakdown of fixed-line telephone and mobile subscribers in the country as of May 31, 2010.
Telecom service subscribers in China as of May 31, 2010
| Business indicators | Subscribers (mln) |
| Total fixed-line telephone subscribers | 305.92 |
| Urban fixed-line telephone subscribers | 204.26 |
| Urban residential fixed-line telephone subscribers | 125.15 |
| Rural fixed-line telephone subscribers | 101.67 |
| Rural residential fixed-line telephone subscribers | 87.05 |
| Total mobile phone subscribers | 795.92 |
| Dial-up Internet subscribers | 7.02 |
| Broadband Internet subscribers | 113.02 |
| of which: xDSL subscribers | 92.01 |
Source: MIIT
Fixed-line telephone and mobile phone users by province as of May 31, 2010
| Province | Fixed-line telephone users (mln) | Urban fixed-line telephone users (mln) | Rural fixed-line telephone users (mln) | Mobile phone users (mln) |
| Eastern China | 164.197 | 112.552 | 51.645 | 407.451 |
| Beijing | 8.875 | 6.913 | 1.962 | 19.607 |
| Tianjin | 3.799 | 3.761 | 0.038 | 10.412 |
| Hebei | 13.298 | 8.643 | 4.655 | 40.775 |
| Liaoning | 14.879 | 10.374 | 4.505 | 31.212 |
| Shanghai | 9.367 | 9.25 | 0.118 | 22.448 |
| Jiangsu | 25.883 | 15.933 | 9.95 | 54.199 |
| Zhejiang | 20.333 | 12.315 | 8.018 | 47.595 |
| Fujian | 11.431 | 7.568 | 3.863 | 27.405 |
| Shandong | 21.602 | 12.436 | 9.166 | 56.431 |
| Guangdong | 32.876 | 24.082 | 8.794 | 91.837 |
| Hainan | 1.854 | 1.277 | 0.577 | 5.53 |
| Central China | 78.114 | 49.985 | 28.129 | 201.85 |
| Shanxi | 7.645 | 5.112 | 2.533 | 20.513 |
| Jilin | 5.84 | 4.268 | 1.571 | 16.985 |
| Heilongjiang | 8.539 | 6.502 | 2.037 | 19.85 |
| Anhui | 12.373 | 6.022 | 6.35 | 24.561 |
| Jiangxi | 7.26 | 4.374 | 2.885 | 16.895 |
| Henan | 14.463 | 9.22 | 5.243 | 41.642 |
| Hubei | 10.581 | 6.916 | 3.666 | 31.485 |
| Hunan | 11.413 | 7.57 | 3.843 | 29.918 |
| Western China | 63.611 | 41.719 | 21.892 | 186.27 |
| Inner Mongolia | 4.42 | 3.754 | 0.666 | 18.471 |
| Guangxi | 7.621 | 4.672 | 2.949 | 20.791 |
| Chongqing | 6.075 | 3.852 | 2.222 | 14.753 |
| Sichuan | 14.831 | 9.315 | 5.516 | 38.073 |
| Guizhou | 4.344 | 2.469 | 1.874 | 15.896 |
| Yunnan | 5.739 | 3.573 | 2.165 | 20.648 |
| Tibet | 0.519 | 0.492 | 0.027 | 1.363 |
| Shaanxi | 8.055 | 5.212 | 2.844 | 23.688 |
| Gansu | 4.375 | 2.76 | 1.615 | 12.74 |
| Qinghai | 1.05 | 0.808 | 0.242 | 3.268 |
| Ningxia | 1.162 | 0.79 | 0.372 | 4.145 |
| Xinjiang | 5.422 | 4.022 | 1.4 | 12.434 |
| Total | 305.922 | 204.256 | 101.666 | 795.915 |
Source: MIIT
Editor's note: According to Interfax's calculations, the total number of mobile phone users comes to 795.571, differing from the above MIIT figure, which is 795.915.
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