PHS users have shrunk by 22.937 million in 1 years.

Commercial News (reporter Mao Tao tao) in the "3 years retreat from the city" policy, the domestic PHS users are gradually out of the market. In the past 1 years, the number of PHS users lost 22.937 million, of which 2.87 million were lost in December, according to the latest figures released by the Ministry of Public Information.　　During this period, the number of domestic fixed telephone users decreased by 26.671 million. According to statistics, as of the end of last year, there are still 45.994 million PHS users in the country, but its share of fixed telephone users from the end of the 20.2% decline to 14.7%.　　During 2009, PHS Local telephone volume was 117.59 billion times, compared with 2008 's 154.62 billion times, down 23.9%. Last February, the Ministry issued a circular on the 1900-1920mhz-band wireless access system related matters, the deployment of the end of 2011 to complete the 1900-1920mhz frequency spectrum of the work. Since then, PHS users began to speed up the loss. At the same time, the telecom operators are also actively arranging nearly 70 million PHS user transfer network work.　　In some cities, local telecom operators have launched a scheme of PHS fallback to gain more mobile phone users. In contrast to the continued contraction in the number of PHS users, domestic mobile penetration rates are growing. According to the Ministry of Information, the number of mobile phone users increased significantly during 2009, a total of 106.14 million new households, including 8.814 million new users in December. In terms of volume, mobile phone calls were 3,296,450,000,000 times during 2009, up 19.5% from 2008.