The total number of telephone users in China exceeds 1 billion

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Deputy Minister Xi 18th, as at the end of March, the total number of telephone users in China more than 1 billion households, accumulated up to 1.006 billion households.　　The total number of fixed telephone users is 335 million, the total number of mobile users amounted to 670 million households. Xi in the "2009 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Conference", said that since the launch of 3G mobile communication services in China, has been two months of continuous single month new mobile users break 10 million, this February, March month of the new mobile users are 10.07 million and 10.55 million households respectively.　　At the same time, the overall price level of telecommunications has steadily declined, down 6.76% from a year earlier. According to statistics, the first March of this year, the telecommunications industry has completed the total number of telecom business 586.77 billion yuan, an increase of 10.8%, the realization of telecom business income of 202.42 billion yuan, an increase of 1.86%, the total profit of the industry amounted to 37.65 billion yuan, the year-on-year decline of 18.7%.