MIIT: Telecom Industry Revenue Reaches RMB 468B

China's telecom industry revenue grew 9.1% year-on-year to reach RMB 467.81 billion in the first seven months of 2008, according to Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) data released on Tuesday. China added 61.07 million mobile phone users in the first seven months to record 608.38 million total users, with sent SMS messages up 22.4% annually to 401.89 billion. China lost 10.58 million fixed-line users in the same period bringing fixed line totals to 355.06 million.

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