Report Shows That 82 Percent of Chinese Have Mobile Phones

China is a country where obtaining statistics sometimes gets confusing because of the massive size of the population and the rapid growth of business. By 2025, China will construct enough skyscrapers to fill ten New York-sized cities. For the moment, the statistics are so interesting that they are hard to believe.

The latest statistics on the prevalence of mobile phones in China are remarkable. Techcrunch has received a report from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) showing that the growth of the telecom industry in China between January and November this particular year was recorded as 11.4 percent. That is remarkably higher than the 4 percent growth estimated by Infonetics Research.

According to the report, it means that China has 1.4 billion mobile phone users, which is 82 percent of the total population. Again, for the record, according to the Pew Institute, 83 percent of American citizens owned different models of mobile phones in the year 2012. It is shocking growth for the Chinese telecom industry for some reason. Of course, the MIIT figures cannot be accepted as they are because there are Chinese who use more than one SIM for their mobiles, so the real figures are lower than the MIIT figures.

The report also shows that there are 220 million 3G users in China as well, which is 20 percent of the total number of mobile phone users. The number will simply rise further because China has become the biggest market for smart phones in the world. Clearly, in a market like this, there is a place for all models of mobile phones.

The rapid growth of mobile phones in China shows that 2013 will be an exciting year. Famous mobile phone manufacturers such as Lenovo, Apple and Samsung have presented competitive mobile phones in the Chinese market. It will become much clearer in the future who will be at the top of the race among manufacturers.