China has 952 million mobile phone users

Beijing: The number of mobile phone users in China has crossed the 950 million-mark.

China had 952.31 million mobile phone users by the end of September, said the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Thursday.

A total of 12.22 million new mobile phone users signed up in September alone, the MIIT site reported in a statement, adding that China's 3G mobile phone users reached 102.46 million by the end of September.

According to the statement, the country's telephone users totalled 1.24 billion by September, with fixed-line telephone users dropping 363,000 in September to 288.43 million, according to the statement.

China's internet users with broadband access totalled 149.93 million by the end of September, up 23.64 million year-on-year, whereas the number of dial-up connection users dropped by 198,000 to 5.7 million.