For those of you who are interested in running SMS services in China with Fortumo, then you will be quite interested in getting to know that telephone users in China are approaching the 1 billion mark and Internet users are nearing 300 million, as reported by the People’s Daily Online.
By the end of October, total number of telephone users in China reached 979 million, including 627 million mobile telephone subscribers and 352 million fixed-line users. The mobile phone business is continuing to replace the fixed-line business.
At present, data services including text messaging and broadband Internet access account for 33.4% of total revenue in the telecommunications industry.
