600m cell phone users by 2010

Telecoms

8 March 2007


China is expected to have more than 600 million cell phone users by 2010, state media reported. The Ministry of Information Industry said the number of users this year should reach 520 million, up from 460 million in 2006. It also said the number of Chinese using the internet will top 200 million, accounting for 15% of the country's population. China now has the world's second-largest population of internet users after the US, with 137 million people online, according to the government.


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