China Mobile released some stats for the last year, which because of the carrier’s scale impress. Let’s briefly go through them:
- Last year, China Mobile subscribers sent 607.1 billion text messages, up more than 100 billion over the operator’s 2007 SMS totals.
- The total subscriber count is now closing in on the 464 million mark – meaning that CM holds a significant share of China’s 650 million+ mobile subscriber base.
- China Mobile customers purchased 76 million full-track music downloads in 2008.
- Another 41.5 million paid for mobile newspaper content, up a third over 2007 totals. At the moment, the China’s leading carrier is offering 110 different news periodicals.
Impressive, don’t you think?
[Via: textually.org]