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China Mobile announces 5.6 million new subscribers in July – take that US carriers

By: , IntoMobile
Monday, August 20th, 2007 at 3:23 PM

China Mobile announces 5.6 million subscribers in julyWhen you have fully 10% of the world’s population residing within your borders, the exploitation potential in any market is incredible. Case in point, China Mobile has just announced their continued dominance in the Chinese wireless market – with 5.6 million subscribers in July alone.

Smaller rival, China Unicom, has been steadily losing ground to the larger China Mobile network. And, according to DBS Vickers Securities analyst Steven Liu, China Unicom will be on the losing end of the battle to exploit the Chinese wireless market.

While US carriers are happy to announce record subscriber growth of maybe a million wireless customers, China’s China Mobile brings the smackdown with their 5.6 million-strong subscriber growth. Ahh, the joys of having a billion people in your country.

[Via: Cellular News]

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Singha

    Nothing compared to the 7+ million connection added in India every month.

  • nope

    we have just two SPs in CHINA,we don’t have another choice u know.. but frankly,CHINA MOBILE can provide much better service, i always purchase its service.

    “Nothing compared to the 7+ million connection added in India every month.”
    no kidding,i think u don’t have a comprehensive understanding about CMCC’s competitiveness.