28 August 2008]
There were 608.38 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of July 2008, growing by 1.27% on month and by 19.63% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT, renamed from Ministry of Information Industry) on its Chinese-language web site on August 26.
The number of subscribers at the end of July accounted for 45.6% of the country's population (user density).
Also at the end of July 2008 were there 355.06 million subscribers of fixed telecommunication networks in China, translating into a user density of 27.0%.
In July 2008, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 57.76 billion short messages, averaging 3.08 short messages per phone number a day.
