The number of mobile phones which in China is called the boundary of a billion broken. This makes China the first country that this milestone has been reached. Would India soon by the border of a billion can break.
The data is according to TechWire Asia based on statistics provided by the Chinese government are distributed. At the end of February, there were 997 million users counted, and it is known that every quarter, about 39 million mobile phones. Therefore, the border of a billion active mobile phones recently passed.
China Mobile has about 650 million customers, the largest share in the telecom market. This is the company, of which the state is the owner, at the same time, the world’s largest telecom provider. Other major telco’s are China Unicom and China Telecom, the Chinese government also is the owner.
The Chinese market is a very different than the European or American market. The share of smartphones is already lower. The number of installed smartphones was there last year at 24 million, only eight times as much as in the Netherlands. Manufacturers need their equipment to adjust, because the networking technologies are different from those in Europe or other parts of the world.
In addition to Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE are also well-known Western manufacturers like Nokia and Motorola are active on the Chinese market. Dell brought there a few years ago, his first Android smartphone the first. Also Apples iPhone is now some time available in the country.
Not all manufacturers want devices sell in China, because the companies then things have to do with Chinese providers, and so the government of the country. There is from the West, criticism of the Chinese government, because that large-scale human rights violations. Also, let the government ensure that products are counterfeit, because the legislation for trademarks and designs to protect the weaker and less maintained than in western countries. That means that there is a lively trade in Chinese counterfeit smartphones from brands like Nokla and iHTC.
The number of mobile users in China in 5 years time doubled. Also there still seems to be room for growth; the country has about 1.35 billion inhabitants, so that not everyone is a cell phone. The number of active devices, however, seems to in India to grow faster. There is now a number of 900 million mobile phones are counted, where the border of one billion within a short time, also will be broken.