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China's tops 358 million mobile phone users, 100 million Internet users

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

China has more than 100 million Internet users and some 358 million mobile phone users, with both areas growing rapidly as the country's economy booms, state press reported.

"At present China has over 100 million Internet users, among the most in the world," Xi Guohua, vice minister of information industry, was quoted by Xinhua news agency as telling an international telecom meeting in Beijing.

Of the Internet users, 30 million or so were using broadband, he said.

There were 94 million Chinese Internet users at the end of 2004, according to earlier reports. China's population is about 1.3 billion people.

Xi also said the number of mobile phone subscribers had reached 358 million people, an area that was growing by about 60 million new users a year.

The mobile phone industry made up some 44.6 percent of China's telecom business, Xi added.

posted by Fergie @ 6/28/2005 11:03:00 AM