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China keeps growing like crazy and it still manages to surprise us with its numbers. According to statistics published by China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII), there were 574.63 million mobile subscribers as of the end of March 2008. Number of subscriptions grew 1.66% on month, 19.55% on year, and the total number of subscribers at the end of March accounted for 41.6% of the country’s population.
On average, Chinese mobile subscriber sent 3.32 messages per day, totaling 58.61 billion SMS sent during the month of March.
As for the landline users — not that we care much about that part — there were 361.06 million fixed telecommunication network subscribers (user density of 27.8%), again at the end of March 2008.
[Via: DigiTimes]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
