Maverick China Research

The drop in fixed-line subscribers stood at 1.1 million this month, according to MIIT. China Telecom reported a net loss of 0.82 million subscribers, down from 0.88 million last month. China Netcom reported a net loss of 0.39 million subs, up from 0.36 million in the previous month.  

According to MIIT's latest statistics Personal Handset subscribers this month dropped 0.934 million to 78.554 million.

According to MIIT's latest statistics mobile subscribers this month increased by 8.619 to reach 592.13 million. China Mobile's subscribers increased by 7.49 million to reach 407.0 million and China Unicom's subscribers increased by 1.2 million to reach 169.7 according data release by China Mobile and China Unicom, respectively.

Approximately 287 billion SMS messages were sent this month.

According to MIIT's latest statistics broadband subscribers this month increased by 1.469 million to reach 72.937 million. China Telecom's broadband subscribers increased by 0.65 million to reach 38.36 and China Netcom's broadband subscribers increased by 0.4 to reach 22.1 according data release by China Telecom and China Netcom, respectively.

According to MIIT's latest statistics fixed-line subscribers this month dropped 1 million to 360 million. China Telecom's fixed-line subscribers dropped by 0.9 million to 216.3 million and China Netcom's fixed-line subscribers dropped 0.36 million to 108.7 million according to data released by China Telecom and China Netcom, respectively.