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Robust future seen for ICT sector

By Bu Jue (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-03-02 09:28
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According to statistics released by the MII yesterday, China had 369 million fixed-line users and 467 million mobile phone subscribers by the end of January.

The growth in the number of fixed-line subscriptions is apparently slowing due to the increasingly mobile lifestyle in the country.

In January, the country's fixed-line operators signed up 1.03 million users, while there were 6.32 million newly added mobile phone subscribers.

With voice services increasingly going mobile, the government is expected to soon award fixed-line telephone operators China Telecom andChina Netcomwith licenses to move into the mobile telecoms market, which should boost mobile phone penetration in the country, industry analysts said.

The number of Chinese Internet users is expected to reach 200 million by 2010, with the penetration hitting 15 percent, according to the blueprint.

Under the definitions laid out in the blueprint, Internet users refer to those who spend at least one hour on the Web each week.

According to the China Internet Networks Information Centre (CNNIC), a quasi-government organization, China had 137 million Internet users by the end of last year, an increase of 23.4 percentyear-on-year.

The number of broadband users hit 90.7 million by 2006, up 41.1 percent year-on-year, while about 17 million mobile phones users now use their handsets to access the Internet, CNNIC said.


(China Daily 03/02/2007 page3)

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