BEIJING-China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced that the country’s two mobile-phone operators added 45.17 million new users in the first three quarters of the year, bringing the total to 190 million.
During the same period, China added 26.63 fixed-line phone users, who now total 207 million.
At the current rate of increase, the number of mobile users will surpass the number of fixed-line telephone users in July 2003.
