Mobile Internet users climb 20%
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China’s mobile Internet user base jumped 20 percent year on year and reached more than 500 million by the end of 2013 due to the popularity of smartphones and various mobile Internet applications, a state-level research firm said yesterday in a report.
The services that require huge bandwidth including video and music boomed last year because of improved Internet speeds, analysts said.
More than 80.1 million mobile Internet users were added last year, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.
The 500 million mobile Internet users accounted for 81.0 percent of the country’s total Internet population last year, compared with 74.5 percent in 2012, CINIC said.
“Mobile devices are still the major engine driving Internet use in China because it covers low-income people and rural regions,” CINIC said in a report. “The transition in usage habit from the personal computer to the mobile phone has become clear.”
By the end of January, the 3G user base reached 386 million, up 66 percent from a year ago, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the telecommunications industry regulator.
The popularity of domestic brands including Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo pushed down the average price of smartphones, making mobile Internet services more accessible to the public.
Instant messaging, news, search engines, music, social networks, videos, games and shopping were the most popular online applications last year, according to CINIC.
By the end of 2013, more than 247 million people watched or downloaded video content through their mobile devices, up 83 percent from a year ago, CINIC said.
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