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COPYRIGHT 2005 Asia Pulse Pty Ltd
BEIJING, Feb 28 Asia Pulse - China's mobile phone market registered a robust growth in 2004, with steady expansion in market scale and a diversification of businesses.
Gap enlarged between mobile and fixed phone users
As many as 64.87 million new mobile phone users signed in to the user base, which reached 334 million by the end of 2004, 25.9 per cent of the total population or 4.8 percentage points higher than at the end of 2003. The gap between mobile and fixed phone was enlarged to 22.38 million as the number of new mobile phone users was 1.3 times that of new fixed phone users.
Mobile calls shot up
The total mobile phone calls added up to 940.03 billion minutes in 2004, up 49.2 per cent over 2003, with 93.5 per cent being local. Although fixed phones still dominated the local telecom industry, mobile business grew much faster and grabbed 40 per cent of the local calls. However, affected by cheaper IP direct distance dialing (DDD) services, the mobile DDD calls...
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