China tops 329 million mobile phone subscribers, AFP, 29 Dec 2004

“Mobile phone subscribers in China topped 329 million at the end of November, with the world's largest cell phone market expected to hit 402 million in 2005…Such numbers would mean that nearly one out of every three Chinese citizens would have a mobile phone.�

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