Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

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.

According to the newest statistics, there were over 275,880,000 text messages generated across the Shanghai mobile network on the Chinese New Year's eve (Feb. 8th). This number indicates the mobile communication service providers in Shanghai made over 30 million RMB (5 million CAD$) in cash just over instant messaging in one night! (Senders pay 10 cents per message in China.)

Xinhua news net indicates the total amount of text messages over mobile devices in China within the 7 days of new years holiday should reach 10 billion! The amount of text messages transmitted over the cell phones in the year 2004 is 217.7 billion, an increase of 21700% over the past 5 years. (Yes, 217 times more than the year 2000) The statistics also indicates in the year 2005, the amount of mobile phone users in China should reach 450 million, a new "Virtual Market on Thumbs" is being initiated in China.