People on the Chinese mainland sent approximately 2 billion text
messages to convey festival greetings to friends, relatives and
family members at this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, which fell on
October 6.
The statistics was made by the Ministry of Information
Industry.
The Ministry's newest statistics show that from January to
August this year, mobile phone users on the mainland sent 273.67
billion text messages, up 43.6 percent from the same period last
year.
By the end of August, Chinese mainland has had more than 437
million mobile phone users. It means every 100 Chinese mainlanders
own 32.7 mobile phones.
(Xinhua News Agecny October 8, 2006)
