MIIT Announces March 2010 Telecom Statistics
MIIT, 4/26/10
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released its March 2010 telecom industry statistics. The figures for the month were as follows:
Telecom operating revenues were RMB 80.5 bln (USD 11.8 bln), bringing the cumulative year-to-date total to RMB 221.2 bln (USD 32.4 bln), up 6.2% over the same 3-month period of 2009. Core services accounted for RMB 209.7 bln of the cumulative total, up 5.3% YoY. Year-to-date capital expenditure came to RMB 35.9 bln (USD 5.2 bln), a 20.2% year-on-year decrease.
Total telephone subscribers saw a net increase of 9.3 mln in March, with mobile subscribers growing by approximately 10.9 mln to 776.9 mln, and fixed-line subscribers dropping by 1.6 mln to approximately 308.7 mln. Broken down by traditional fixed-line and PHS, the PHS subscriber base declined by approximately 1.9 mln subs to 40.5 mln, while traditional (i.e. non-PHS) fixed-line subscribers increased by approximately 0.3 mln to 268.2 mln.
A total of over 68.0 bln SMS messages were sent during the month of March, bringing the total for 2010 to 205.6 bln, a 5.5 % increase over the 2009 figure.
Broadband added 2.5 mln new registered users in March to reach a total of 109.3 mln. In contrast, dial-up lost another 89,000 users, lowering the total dial-up user base to 7.2 mln.
Keywords: national statistics PHS subscribers broadband subscribers market size growth rate telecom MIIT mobile subscribers dial-up fixed-line subscribers capex revenue
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