Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

09/22/05

190.6 billion mobile text messages being transfered so far this year in China

Filed under: China Statistics, T Mobile Text Message — timwang @ 07:02:31 pm

A new statistics from Xinhua.net indicates in the past 8 months, there have been over 190.6 billion text messages being transferred over the Chinese mobile SMS! Chinese mobile communication companies charge 0.1 yuan (1.5 cents in CAD) per message, this means there has been over 19 billion yuan (2.8 billion dollars in CAD) in profit being made on short messages alone! According to this number, the total amount of messages using Mobile SMS will easily proceed last year's record (220 billion messages). There are currently 3700 million mobile phone users, approximately 28 phones every 100 Chinese.


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