Melani Warod

According to the news of Ministry of Information Industry, in first quarter of this year, the traffic volume of China Mobile has already exceeded the fixed telephone traffic volume, though it was the internal algorithmic method of Ministry of Information Industry that adopted in calculating, but this historical break-through remains for the first time on the development history of China Mobile, indicate mobile communication has already entered a new developing stage in China.

Count the digital display, by March of this year, Chinese mobile phone user has already exceeded 50 million, the mobile telephone exchange capacity reaches 86,570,000, network size leaps to the third place in the world, county in network overlapping the whole country 93%. Dong YunTing, president of China Acad of Elect Indus Develop & Planning Research Ofc, expected until 2005, the mobile phone user of China will be up to 3 hundred million. This is nearly 7 times of user quantity of the end of last year. In the following 5 years, the inland mobile phone user's quantity will also increase rapidly. In the past two years among them, estimated that increases progressively by 50% every year in the growth rate; In 3 years thereafter, may continue increasing by 30% every year. 5 years later, the mobile phone user will also exceed and fix the telephone subscriber on the quantity.