The mobile phone users are all customers of China Mobile Communications Corp. (MCC.YY) and China United Telecommunications Corp., the nations state-owned mobile duopoly. China is the worlds biggest mobile phone market by users. The number of new fixed-line subscribers continued to lag that for mobile phones. Over the same period, China added 4.37 million fixed-line users for a total of 285.448 million subscribers, the MII said on its Web site. Fixed-line services in China are mostly provided by state-owned companies China Telecommunications and China Netcom. In the January to April period, revenue from postal and telecommunication services rose 13.1% year on year to 187.14 billion yuan ($1=CNY8.28). Of the total, telecom revenue rose 13.8% on year to CNY168.36 billion, while postal revenue was up 6.8% on year to CNY18.78 billion.
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