China home to 176 mln 3G phone users  

中国3G电话用户达到1.76亿户 宽带提速进展顺利

中国工业和信息化部新闻发言人张峰25日在北京透露，截至2012年6月底，中国电话用户已突破13.35亿户，其中3G电话用户达1.76亿户。

Beijing (CNS) -- As of June 31, China is home to nearly 1.34 billion phone users, of which 176 million people use 3G phones, said Zhang Feng, spokesman of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Wednesday.

China has made new progress in information highway use in the first half year of 2012, seeing a growth of 18 million fiber optic users, Zhang added.

Bandwidth consumers using of 4M and above accounted for 54 percent of the total users as of June 31 as well, 14 percent more than at the end of 2011.

Accelerating the speed of bandwidth coverage is a long haul, and the ministry will put more emphasis on pushing enterprises to improve bandwidth services, guiding the internet industry to optimize service design, and educating the public in the skills of increasing network speed, said Zhang.