8.2 Billion Short Messages Sent Last Month in China

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8.2 Billion Short Messages Sent Last Month in China

A Spring Festival greeting frenzy caused a sharp increase in the number of short messages sent via cell phone last month in China, which reached a total of 8.1933 billion.

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A Spring Festival greeting frenzy caused a sharp increase in the number of short messages sent via cell phone last month in China, which reached a total of 8.1933 billion.

The figure represents an average of 38.6 messages per mobile phone subscriber in the country.

According to statistics released by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) Thursday, by the end of January, the number of mobile phone subscribers hit 212 million, an increase of 5.82 million compared to the end of last year.

By the end of last month, the number of fixed phone users hit 218 million in China, an increase of 3.58 million over the end of last year, while the monthly increase merely averaged 2.83 million last year, according to the MII.

China reported the world's biggest phone ownership at the end of July last year when the number of Chinese phone users exceeded that of the United States with 380 million.

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