Phone penetration rate to soar
By Zhu Shenshen |
May 5, 2012, Saturday
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CHINA'S phone penetration rate will surpass 100 percent for the first time by 2015, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in the telecommunications industry's 12th Five-Year (2011-2015) Plan yesterday.
Although it doesn't mean everyone will own a phone - some people may have several - it shows the potential of the domestic mobile phone market.
China overtook the US as the world's biggest smartphone market in the first quarter of this year due to booming sales of Apple's iPhone and other 3G phones, according to Canalys, a US-based research firm.
By 2015, China is expected to have 1.4 billion phone users with a penetration rate of 100 percent, compared with 85 percent at the end of 2010. Among them, China will have 450 million 3G users, 36 percent of the total mobile phone base of 1.2 billion, according to the plan published on the ministry's website yesterday.
The country will start a project called "Broadband China," which will improve the average broadband bandwidth capacity in urban regions to 20 megabytes per second, five to 10 times faster than the current level, the ministry said.
By March, China represented 22 percent of global smartphone sales while the US accounted for 16 percent.
"A year earlier, these figures were the other way around," said Nicole Peng, Canalys research director for China.
In the first quarter, iPhone sales in China were five times the level from a year ago.
Although it doesn't mean everyone will own a phone - some people may have several - it shows the potential of the domestic mobile phone market.
China overtook the US as the world's biggest smartphone market in the first quarter of this year due to booming sales of Apple's iPhone and other 3G phones, according to Canalys, a US-based research firm.
By 2015, China is expected to have 1.4 billion phone users with a penetration rate of 100 percent, compared with 85 percent at the end of 2010. Among them, China will have 450 million 3G users, 36 percent of the total mobile phone base of 1.2 billion, according to the plan published on the ministry's website yesterday.
The country will start a project called "Broadband China," which will improve the average broadband bandwidth capacity in urban regions to 20 megabytes per second, five to 10 times faster than the current level, the ministry said.
By March, China represented 22 percent of global smartphone sales while the US accounted for 16 percent.
"A year earlier, these figures were the other way around," said Nicole Peng, Canalys research director for China.
In the first quarter, iPhone sales in China were five times the level from a year ago.
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