Editorial Summary

China added 8.48 million mobile phone users in January to reach 555.77 million handset users by the end of the month, according to Ministry of Information Industry (MII) data released on March 12. In the same period, China lost 1.496 million fixed-line users to reach 363.95 million users, while broadband Internet users increased by 1.85 million to reach a total of 68.31 million users.

The nation's telecom industry revenue increased 10 percent year-on-year to reach RMB61.28 billion in January.