Houston Community News >> China Biggest Handset and User Market
10/23/2007-- China is the
world’s biggest mobile market in both user numbers and handset manufacturing,
the MII says.
Vice-Minister Xi Guohua said China today has nearly 900 million phone
subscribers, including 520 million mobile users – a fifth of the world total. It
has a mobile penetration rate of approximately 40%.
China is also the world’s major handset manufacturing center, he said. Chinese
plants shipped 480 million handsets last year, up 58.2% from the previous year
and representing 47% of global output.
Up to August this year, 348 million terminals were shipped, up 27.9%from the
same period in 2006.
(Contributed by Telecomasia.net)