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Don’t you just love the ever growing numbers from China? A single country has more mobile subscribers than whole of Europe.
As a matter of fact, as of the end of August this year there were 616.02 million subscribers of mobile communication services in the “world’s fastest growing economy.” The number represents 45.6% of the country’s population, leaving tons of place for further growth.
As for the percentages, the number of mobile phone users was growing by 1.26% on month and 19.46% on year, according to statistics published by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
In terms of SMS traffic, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 57.31 billion text messages in August 2008. To put it in other words, that’s 3.02 messages per subscription a day.
Finally, if anyone cares about fixed telecommunication networks, there were 354.07 million subscribers using good ol’ landlines at the end of August 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.
