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China Mobile sees 3.4m new subscribers in May
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-20 15:20
China Mobile Ltd, the Hong Kong-listed arm of China's largest mobile
operator, said Monday it added nearly 3.4 million new subscribers in May, the
highest monthly net addition so far this year.
China Mobile, which uses
the global system for mobile service or GSM, said it added 3.288 million prepaid
users and 111,000 contract users last month, a total of 3.399 million.
At the end of May, the company had 220.505 million subscribers, of which
159.998 million were using the prepaid service and 60.507 million were on
post-paid contracts.
China is the world's largest telecom market, with about 354 million mobile
users at the end of April, and a mobile penetration rate of 25.9 percent.
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