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What you need to know: This weblog captures key data points about the global telecoms industry. I use it as an electronic notebook to support my work for Pringle Media.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

China Mobile Returns to Growth

China Mobile reported operating revenues of 161 billion Chinese yuan (26 billion US dollars) for the first quarter of 2015, representing a year-on-year rise of almost 4%. In the fourth quarter of 2014, revenue fell by 4% year-on-year.  The company added 8.75 million connections in the quarter, taking its total connections base to more than 815 million.

China Mobile also said it now has more than 143 million 4G customers, up from 3 million a year ago. Although the number of SMS messages sent by customers fell 4% and voice traffic 1% year-on-year, mobile data traffic rose by 158%. source: China Mobile operating data

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