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China Telcos Announce December 2010 Subscriber Totals

Marbridge Consulting, 1/20/11

China’s three main telecom operators have announced their subscriber totals for December 2010.

December saw the net addition of 8.78 mln new mobile subscribers. China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) added 4.38 mln new mobile subscribers, pushing the operator’s total mobile user base to 584.02 mln, of which a total of 20.7 mln subscribers used China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA terminals during the month.

China Unicom (NYSE: CHU; 0762.HK; 600050.SH) added 0.62 mln new GSM subscribers, bringing its total GSM user base to 153.37 mln, and added 1.28 mln subscribers to its WCDMA 3G network, for a total of 14.06 mln WCDMA users.

China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) added 2.5 mln CDMA subs, taking its total to 90.52 mln, of which 12.29 mln were CDMA2000 EV-DO subscribers. While China Telecom did not break out what percentage of its 2.5 mln new subscribers in December were 3G subscribers, it added an average of 1.05 mln new 3G subscribers per month in Q4 2010 (according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China Telecom added 850,000 3G subscribers in October, meaning an average of over 1.14 mln new 3G subs per month in each November and December).

Of the three operators’ cumulative 47.05 mln 3G subs (which represents only 80% of the 60 mln figure the MIIT had previously set as the 2010 year-end target), China Mobile holds 44%, China Unicom 30%, and China Telecom 26%. Of total new mobile subs added in December, China Mobile took 49.87%, dropping its share of China’s total mobile user base to 69.36%. China Unicom, in contrast, increased its share of China’s total mobile user base for the first time since October 2008, to 19.89%. China Telecom’s share of the total installed mobile user base increased for the 24th straight month, hitting 10.75%.

China Telecom lost 1.22 mln fixed-line subs, reducing its total to 175.05 mln, while China Unicom dropped 1.91 mln fixed-line subs, reducing its total to 96.64 mln.

China Telecom added 0.79 mln new broadband subscribers to reach 63.48 mln, and China Unicom added 0.29 mln new broadband subs to reach 47.22 mln.

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China Unicom end-Aug GSM mobile users 91.33 mln vs 90.47 mln end-July

China Unicom end-Aug GSM mobile users 91.33 mln vs 90.47 mln end-July

Updated:2005/9/21 10:10
Tags:china unicom|gsm|GSM|CDMA|China Mobile|ARM
BEIJING (AFX) – China Unicom Ltd (HK 0762; NYSE CHU) said its GSM mobile subscribers totaled 91.33 mln at the end of August, up from 90.47 mln at the end of July.

The number of CDMA users reached 31.66 mln at the end of last month, compared with 31.32 mln a month earlier, China Unicom said in a statement.

Unicom said total GSM users included 45.16 mln prepaid subscribers and 46.17 mln billed users.

The total number of CDMA subscribers at the end of last month included 2.51 mln prepaid users and 29.15 mln billed users.

Unicom added 7.06 mln new GSM subscribers during the first eight months of this year, compared with 6.20 mln for the first seven months, and 3.84 mln new CDMA users in the January-August period, compared with 3.51 mln between January and July.

The number of Internet users reached 8.33 mln at the end of last month, compared with 8.29 mln a month earlier.

China Unicom Corp, the country”s second largest wireless carrier after China Mobile, also has a listed arm in Shanghai, China United Telecommunications Corp Ltd (China Unicom) (SHA 600050).

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