The growth of 4G users in China outpaced 3G users in 2014 with 97.284 million new subscribers comparing to 83.644 million 3G new subscribers according to Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China.
China’s mobile internet data usage was 2.062G in 2014, an increase of 62.9%. A 4G subscriber on average used 205M data per month, an increase of 47.1%.
China mobile users sent much less number of SMS in 2014, 763.05 billion, down 14.4%. MMS growth was down 24.4% in 2014 while it grew by 23% in the previous year.
China phone users increased by 39.426 million to 1.536 billion, an increase of 2.6%. Mobile phone subscribers increased by 56.98 million to 1.286 billion with a penetration rate of 94.5%. The landline subscribers reached 249 million, down by 17.555 subscribers.
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