China has become the first country in the number of mobile subscribers more than a billion

China has become the first country where there are one billion mobile subscribers. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of mobile users in China at the end of February amounted to 997 million, and now exceeds one billion. For comparison, in 2007 the number of mobile subscribers in China was less than half, and was 500 million. At the moment, China has approximately 1.3 billion people, that is, the mobile penetration rate of 73.6%. When compared with developed countries, the small figure in the U.S., for example, mobile penetration rate exceeds 100%, to 103.9%, this means that the number of users - more than one mobile phone.