How many new cell phone accounts are opened in China a day?
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Blog: There's a cell phone account for about every other person in China, and the accounts are opening up daily.
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(InfoWorld) - China launched the first trials of a home-grown 4G (fourth-generation) mobile communications network in a district of Shanghai on Sunday, despite the fact it hasn't even decided on standards for 3G (third-generation) services, the Web site of the state-run China Daily reported. The field test in Shanghai's Changning District will cost about 150 million Chinese renminbi ($19.3 million) by the time it's completed and marks an important step for China. It will be the final trial of a system made in China and fulfills a goal ofÂ developing technology at homeÂ to meet the needs of Chinese users. The group of 10 Chinese institutions involved in the 4G project have obtained more than 200 patents for the system since starting research in 2001, and some of its fundamental technologies have been adopted by international standards organizations, the China Daily said, without naming the organizations. The goal has been to put the 4G system into trial commercial use between 2006 and 2010. The 4G system was designed to transmit data and images wirelessly at speeds as fast as landline optical fiber, the China Daily said. Research on the 4G system, called the FuTURE Project, short for Future Technology for Universal Radio Environment, was started as part of China's national high-tech initiative. China hasn't yet released aÂ timetable for the rollout of 3GÂ mobile networks, nor said how many licenses it will issue. Chinese officials have said they want 3G services up and running in time for the 2008 Olympic Games, to be held in Beijing. One issue surrounding the opening of 3G services in China has been the selection of the technology or technologies to be used. Many Chinese officials favor a home-grown standard, TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), but a TD-SDCMA rollout could prove slow because of a lack of support from equipment and handset manufacturers. Â
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China&#39;s second-largest mobile phone company says it plans to open up to 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of this year. State-controlled China Unicom, which already operates 400 Internet cafes across the country
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Global mobile phone use will top 3.25  billion -- equivalent to around half the world's population --  in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa,  a survey said on Wednesday.
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BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhuanet,By Quan Xiaoshu ) -- China is aging. According to statistics, citizens aged 60 and about account for nearly 11 percent of its 1.3 billion people.
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Mobile phones are expected to generate more money this year than traditional fixed-line services for the first time due to surging demand in developing countries such as China, India and Russia, an annual industry report said.
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By Robert Evans GENEVA  - Mobile phone subscribers around the globe totaled nearly 1.5 billion by the middle of this year, about one quarter of the world's population, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said on Thursday.
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XIAMEN, China -- By the hundreds of thousands, the urgent text messages ricocheted around cellphones in Xiamen, warning of a catastrophe that would spoil the city's beautiful seaside environment and foul its sweet-smelling tropical breezes.
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BEIJING - China is expected to have more than 600 million cell phone users by 2010, state media said Wednesday.  The Xinhua News Agency, citing the Ministry of Information Industry, said the number of users this year should reach 520 million, up from 460 million in 2006.
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India has become the fastest-growing cellular market in the world, adding 5.9 million subscribers in August and outstripping ChinaÂs increase of 5.19 million subscribers.
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The number of mobile-phone subscribers in China is likely to hit 500 million before the end of June, according to government statistics.
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China's cellular operators estimate  Chinese customers will send around 14 billion Lunar New Year  text messages on their mobile phones during the week-long  holiday, the Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - The number of Chinese Internet users hit 162 million at the end of June, growing at the fastest rate since 2004, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said Wednesday. The latest numbers show China's Internet "entered a new stage of rapid growth," CNNIC said in a report (in Chinese). The number of Chinese Internet users increased 31.7 percent since June 2006, said CNNIC, which oversees the .cn top-level domain and tracks Internet usage in China. Thanks in part to a change in CNNIC's definition of an Internet user, that was the fastest growth seen in China since mid-2004, when the number of Internet users grew 34.5 percent to reach 79.5 million. Numbers released by CNNIC in the middle of 2005 and 2006 showed annual growth of 18.2 percent and 18.1 percent, respectively. In its latest report, CNNIC changed the definition of an Internet user from someone who spends at least one hour online each week to someone who accessed the Internet at least once during the previous six months. The previous definition had been in use for 10 years. Most Chinese Internet users -- 122.4 million people -- get online using wired broadband, CNNIC said. Wireless Internet access is also widely used, with 55.6 million people using this method, including 44.3 million people who access the Internet from mobile phones, CNNIC said, noting that some users access the Internet with more than one type of connection. The latest numbers bring China's Internet penetration rate to 12.3 percent, slightly below the global penetration rate of 17.6 percent, CNNIC said.
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Investor's Business Daily - They may once have looked like the Keystone Cossacks. But Russia's troika of top wireless operators -- Mobile Telesystems  , Vimpel Communications   and Megafon -- have delivered mobile phones to most of the country's 143 million citizens in a few years.
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Cellphone users in China sent 429 billion text messages in 2006, while India added more mobile subscribers in the year than Britain had in total, as the two countries joined Brazil and Russia in driving growth in the sector.
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China is aging. According to statistics, citizens aged 60 and about account for nearly 11 percent of its 1.3 billion people. China is focusing on improving its insurance system to cope with the aging population
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New figures show that the number of new share accounts being opened in China has been hit by the new share tax.