MIIT Announces August 2012 Telecom Statistics
MIIT, 9/21/12
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released its August 2012 telecom industry statistics. The figures for the month were as follows:
Telecom operating revenues were RMB 107.21 bln (USD 16.9 bln), bringing the cumulative year-to-date total to RMB 788.91 bln (USD 124.04 bln), up 12.1% over the same 8-month period of 2011. Core services accounted for RMB 706.29 bln (USD 111.05 bln) year-to-date of the cumulative total, up 9.1% YoY. Year-to-date capital expenditure came to RMB 192.81 bln (USD 30.32 bln), a 13.9% year-on-year increase.
Total telephone subscribers saw a net increase of 9.21 mln in August to reach 1.354 bln. Mobile subscribers grew by 10.21 mln to 1.072 bln, and fixed-line subscribers dropped by 1.01 mln to 282.18 mln. Broken down by traditional fixed-line and PHS, the traditional (i.e. non-PHS) fixed-line subscriber base decreased by 678,000 to 268.39 mln, while the PHS subscriber base declined by 328,000 subs to 13.79 mln. 8.80 mln new 3G subscribers were added in August to reach a total 3G user base of 192.56 mln.
A total of 73.07 bln SMS messages were sent during the month of August, bringing the total for the first 8 months of 2012 to 597.58 bln, a 3.9% increase over the figure during the same period of 2011.
Broadband added 1.86 mln new registered users in August to reach a total of 168.29 mln. Dial-up decreased by 1.02 mln users, reducing the total dial-up user base to 4.70 mln.
Keywords: national statistics PHS subscribers broadband telecom MIIT mobile subscribers SMS 3G dial-up fixed-line subscribers registered users telephone subscribers capex revenue
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