There are 320 million mobile phones in China

In China, the number of mobile phones overtook fixed line installations last month, which stood at 310 million in the end of October.

In addition, another 5.5 million mobile phone users sign up monthly -

The Ministry of Information in China also stated that from January to October 2004, mobile phone short message traffic soared by 62% over the same period a year earlier to more than 176.1 billion messages.

All these are numbers, mobile phone companies in other countries dream about. They are frequently faced with quickly saturating markets, however, as mentioned earlier, the first signs of saturation appear in China as well. And many companies put in place strategies to cope with those markets by startig to serve their customers better.

(By Asia Business Consulting)