Cell-phone users increase

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November 22, 2013

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Source: Xinhua | November 22, 2013, Friday |

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The number of Chinese mobile phone users hit 1.22 billion at the end of October, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said yesterday.

Among them, 67.19 percent, or 817 million mobile users, are connected to the Internet and 34.5 percent are 3G users.

In contrast, the number of fixed-line users shrank by 8.82 million in the first ten months to 269 million by October-end.

The mobile users account for 81.9 percent of phone users and fixed-line users 18.1 percent.

Guangdong, Henan and Sichuan provinces reported the most mobile phone user growth in the first ten months.