Comments on: China Telecom, Unicom set to narrow 3G gap with iPhone 5; China Mobile loses out without iPhone contract

By: panicko lawrence

panicko lawrence — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:19:04 +0000

only had bad experiences with china unicom, not sure how quickly china unicom can grow unless the fix alot of issues…

~panicko lawrence

By: the joker

the joker — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:51:02 +0000

“As of January 2012, China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile phone operator with about 655 million subscribers.[8″

China Unicom isnt even slightly close to China Mobile. All the providers put together arent even close to China Mobile.

By: KenC

KenC — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:55:18 +0000

While it’s true that CM has a ton more users than CU, almost all of those are pre-paid. The post-paid numbers are just a fraction of the total, and both CU and China Telecom, CT are very close to CM’s numbers.

If you read the article, towards the bottom they give the latest actual 3G post-paid subscriber numbers:

“China Telecom increased its 3G subscriber base by 5.8 percent in September to 59.7 million, while China Unicom expanded by 5.0 percent to 66.9 million and China Mobile by 4.8 percent to 75.6 million, company data showed.”

I’d say 60M to 67M to 76M is very close.

By: the joker

the joker — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:39:39 +0000

China Mobile only has about 500 million more subscribers than China Unicom. I am sure that they are real worried.

By: spyintheskyuk

spyintheskyuk — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:30:28 +0000

Well that’s a clear as mud