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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Several news stories have noted that China's internet user base increased by more than 70 million in 2007 to a count 213 million at year's end. Little noted is that 23 percent of these users use the internet from mobile devices.
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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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Global mobile phone sales rose by a robust 17.4 percent to nearly 271 million handsets in the second quarter, driven by dizzying sales growth of more than 40 percent in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the latest data from research firm Gartner. Moreover, Gartner now predicts that worldwide mobile phone sales will reach 1.13 billion units for the entire year.
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NEW YORK - More than 33 million people have used mobile phones to access the Internet this year, according to Nielsen Media Research, which on Wednesday announced its new effort to measure such use.
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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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Investor's Business Daily - Color screens, cameras and clamshells. Those features helped drive the cell phone industry to another record year in 2004, according to new sales data.
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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.
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Sales of mobile phones in China increased 40 percent year on year to 120 million units in 2006, Xinhua quoting deputy chief of the China Mobile Communications Association Xie Linzhen.
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Researchers warn that a growing number of people are getting addicted to their mobile phones and PDAs.
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Around one-tenth of all iPhones sold in 2007 wound up unlocked and in use on China Mobile's network, which shows serious iPhone demand in China but represents lost revenue for Apple and its partners.
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Taiwan capital says network will reach 90% of population of 3M, will charge users for access. TAIPEI  - Taipei plans to make wireless Internet access available across the Taiwan capital by the end
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China Unicom, the countryâs No. 2 mobile phone carrier, said Tuesday it has started testing a music download service offering subscribers songs from 23 record companies.
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(InfoWorld) - How many Chinese bloggers are there? Estimates offered by industry analysts vary widely, ranging from several million to more than 30 million, or roughly one-quarter of all Chinese Internet users. Now, the government-backed China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has weighed in with its own estimate, putting the number of active bloggers at 7.7 million. CNNIC, which manages the .cn top-level domain and tracks Chinese Internet usage statistics, defines an active blogger as one who updates their blog at least once per month on average. Beyond the number of active bloggers, far more Chinese Internet users have dabbled with the medium, with a total of 17.5 million users setting up 34 million blogs, it said. CNNIC estimated that 75 millionÂ Internet users read blogs, with 54.7 million of these users defined as "active" blog readers. China had 123 million Internet users at the end of July, based on CNNIC's estimate. Blogs have become very popular among Chinese Internet users in a short period of time. The number of bloggers has increased at a rate that is three times faster than the overall rise in Internet users, CNNIC said. The result has been a 30-fold increase in bloggers since 2002, it said. At this rate, the number of active bloggers in China will hit 10 million before the end of this year, CNNIC said.
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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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Filipinos send on average 12 to 15 text messages a day--making the Philippines the text-messaging capital of the world.
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There's a lot of uncertainty surrounding the Chinese cell-phone powerhouse.