China Unicom Adds Only 83,000 Mobile Subs in September 2019
Marbridge Consulting, 10/21/19
Telecom operator China Unicom (NYSE: CHU; 0762.HK; 600050.SH) has announced its subscriber totals for the month of September 2019, with a net addition of just 83,000 mobile billing subscribers to reach a total mobile billing user base of 324.73 mln. Of the total, 251.15 mln were 4G subscribers, with a net addition of 3.35 mln LTE subs during the month.
September marked the fifth consecutive month in which Unicom posted a net addition of fewer than 200,000 mobile subs, following net additions of just 57,000, 24,000, 109,000, and 184,000 in May, June, July, and August, respectively. In the first 9 months of 2019, the operator has added a net monthly average of just 1.08 mln new mobile subs, compared to a net monthly average of 2.85 mln during the same 9-month period of 2018.
China Unicom lost 0.008 mln fixed-line telephone subscribers in September, dropping its total to 54.25 mln. The operator added 0.47 mln fixed-line broadband subscribers (registered accounts) in September, increasing its total to 84.45 mln.
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