China has the highest number of mobile phone subscribers

China is the most populous country in the world. And now it is also the country with the highest number of mobile phone subscribers. An official report by the state media from Beijing has said that the number of mobile users in the country has touched 376 million at the end of September. By the end of last year, the country had 25.7 mobile phones for every 100 Chinese.

This itself exceeds the global average. By the end of this year, the number of mobile phone users in china is expected to touch a high of 380 million. Other estimates say that the number would go up to 520 million by 2008 and 600 million by 2010. China has also shown one of the fastest income growths in the mobile telecommunications market.

The annual revenue from market operation services reaching 250 billion Yuan (30.86 billion dollars). This is around 20% improvement from the figures from last year. In addition, mobile phone sales reached 100 billion Yuan, an increase of 30 percent over the previous year. This market alone is expected to contribute 500 billion Yuan to China’s total GDP for 2005, or eight percent to 10 percent of the national total as per the official news agency Xinhua.