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China to add 15 million mobile subscribers in second half of 2001

BEIJING—Xu Xiaotian, director of the department of electronics and information product administration at China’s Ministry of Information Industry told a technology fair in Shanghai that China plans to add 46.4 million mobile-phone users this year.
The number increased from 85.26 million at the end of 2000 to 117 million in June. According to this forecast, China would only add 15 million new subscribers in the second half of 2001.

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