China has 467 million cell phone users by the end of January, indicating that one out of three Chinese owned a mobile, latest official statistics showed.
As mobile fees decreased and the rural market for cell phones continued to open up, the number of cell phone users expanded rapidly. In January alone, the figure surged by 6.33 million, figures from the ministry of information industry showed.
A total of 41.16 billion text messages were sent by cell phone users in January, up 22.1 per cent year on year.
According to the MII, the number of telephone users has topped 830 million, with that of fixed-line telephone users reaching 368 million.
Meanwhile, China's two major fixed-line
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