China Mobile hits a half billion subscribers
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Sep 22nd 2009 11:59AM
posted Sep 22nd 2009 11:59AM
- The carrier has a phone in the pocket of nearly 38 percent of the population. For comparison's sake, the biggest carrier in the US clocks in at under 29 percent -- never mind the fact that China has over 1.3 billion people.
- If China Mobile were a US carrier, it'd be providing every American man, woman, and child with about 1.65 phones (and OPhones).
Ummm, shouldn't that be a half "million" with an m?
No, read below the chart. The numbers are expressed in thousands of subscribers.
Did you see the in thousand in the ()???
Seriously? There are even arrows pointing it out for you so you don't have to think for yourself... "Customer Base (in thousands)"
That's how I see it. :)
I wonder if they ever have network problems? That's crazy... Network overload? Can you see it when they get these iPhones? Isn't this the network getting the iPhone?
No. Apple and China Mobile couldn't agree on terms. So iPhone is on China Unicom (China's second mobile operator).
In china when you have poor signal in your home or office, just call their hotline and argue with their girls and 2 weeks later they'll send some workers to set up new cell tower near you.
there's such a population density and the number of users is always growing, so they're constantly in short of new towers.
That makes sense now, Come to think of it, half a mill probably wouldn't even cover one of their largest cities.
Half a mil won't cover 1/30 of their largest cities.
excuse me china mobile,since you are so popular, can you give me a job?im currently unemployed in th uk and i want to be rich just like you...
ha ha...GrameenPhone Telecom based in Bangladesh reached 20 Million subsribers in mid-2008...and talking of China Tel reaching...whats that? oh yeah... HALF A MILLION SUBSCRIBERS....good good! :p
your an idiot
One of the reasons is probably the fact that lots of the customers do not have telephone cable access at their residence. Cell phones have leapfrogged the need to wire up neighborhoods for landline.
Also with the power of smart phones (and getting smarter), many of them use a smartphone to replace the need for a PC.