About 44.3 million people access the Internet via cell phones,
accounting for 27.3 percent of total Internet users, Xinhua news
agency reported yesterday.
Income generated from mobile data services, especially mobile
Internet, accounted for nearly 30 percent of all mobile services
and about 10,000 companies deal in value-added services, Xi Guohua,
Vice Minister of Information Industry, said at a forum today in
Beijing.
Mobile Internet search has developed significantly. A total of
39 million people across China use wireless application protocol,
Xi said.
The ministry predicted the communications sector is expected to
earn 780 billion yuan (US$105 billion) in revenue this year.
(Shanghai Daily November 28, 2007)
