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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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