[Graph] The summary of the 3G market in China. 3G user in China was 280 million people in the first quarter.

All of 3 big career in China published their achievement of the first quarter, so I would like to introduce the current status of 3G users in China.

According to their report, the total number of mobile users in China was 1.145 billion people in the first quarter, and the number of 3G users in China was 0.28 billion people in the first quarter.

The following picture is the market share of total user number.

China Mobile has totally 726.31 users, so they dominate 63.34% of the Chinese mobile market. But compared to the last July, their market share decreased 1.87%.

That's one of the reason is related to the increase of the 3G user ratio. The 3G user ratio in the last July was 16.8%, but its ratio was up to 24.5% in the first quarter. The market share of 3G user is more competitive than the market share of total user number as follows.

In China, China Mobile already started LTE test on some places. Will it be happen something change in the era of LTE? We have to keep watching the trend as ever.


Source => CNII, TechWeb-1, TechWeb-2

In China, the ratio of 3G mobile user is still less than 20%.

According to the report by MIIT, the latest number of mobile user in China was 1062.028 million people, and among them 3G mobile user was 183.761 people.

And the net increase of mobile users in China was 75.775 million people from January to July. Among them, the net increase of 3G users was 55.338 million people at the same period of time, and the ratio of 3G users net increase was 73.1%.

The ratio of 3G mobile users were still less than 20% at the moment, but the growth rate of 3G users were larger than whole mobile user's, so it can be said that 3G users is surely increasing(Though its speed is a little bit slow...).

And the diagram below is the ranking of whole mobile user number by individual region.

Guangdong is the largest region of mobile user number, and there are 113.45 million users.

In 2012, some region in China will be started testing LTE. So I'm interested in that big 3 career in China still continue to promote 3G connection, or will start focusing to the LTE connection instead of 3G connection...

Let's keep attentions to their action as ever.

Source => The homepage of MIIT

China Mobile still dominate 65％ of Chinese mobile whole market, but 3G market is in the situation of competitive.

Big 3 career(China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom) released the report of each mobile user condition in China as of  June 2012.

According to these report, recent market share of Chinese mobile user is as follows:

User number of each mobile career as of June


China Mobile   : 683 million


China Unicom  : 219 million


China Telecom : 144 million





Actually China Mobile still dominate 65% of Chinese mobile market.


But on the other hand, we can find the different result on the data that is focusing 3G users.

The number of 3G users each mobile career as of June


China Mobile  : 67.079 million


China Unicom : 57.53 million


China Telecom : 50.96 million



China Mobile have 38.21% share of 3G market in China, but its number is much less than whole market share. And China Unicom have 32.77% of market share, China Telecom have 29.03% of market share, so it can be said that focusing 3G market in China is in the situation of competitive.


The one of reason is related to each method of 3G communication. As you know, each 3 careers adopted the method of 3G communication is as follows:

- China Mobile    TD-SCDMA
- China Unicom   W-CDMA
- China Telecom  CDMA2000

W-CDMA and CDMA2000 are the communication method that is adopted by many companies in the world wide, but TD-SCDMA is the standard that is used only in China.

So in case that foreign mobile device companies would like to enter Chinese market with China Unicom or China Telecom, there are no need to customize their mobile devices basically. But in case that they would like to enter Chinese market with China Mobile, they have to add or change to TD-SCDMA chip on their mobile devices.

It is also the fact that China Mobile have less kind of 3G mobile devices compared to China Unicom and China Telecom.


This year or next year will start LTE service in China, but China Mobile have a plan to advance the standard of TD-LTE. China Unicom and China Telecom have not decided that they adopt which standard at this time. So we have to keep attention this trend the same as always.


Original article => Sina blog

The summery report of Chinese mobile industry by Baidu.

Chinese internet giants Baidu published the report written about the summary Chinese mobile industry.

According to this report, a PV ranking by each area as of Q4,2011 is as follwing:

#1 Guangdong  14.6%
#2 Jaingsu  7.5%
#3 Shangdong   5.3%

Beijing is a 7th position, and Shanghai is a 11th position.


And market share by each carrier is as followeing:

China Mobile has dominated Chinese whole mobile market, they have 71.6% share in it. And China Telecom has 13.6% market share, and China Unicom has 14.9% market share in it.

But focusing to Android and iOS user, the market share of 3 carriers are antagonism,  China Mobile have 43.6% market share, China Telecom have 29.7% market share, and China Unicom have 26.6% market share.


Finally, I would like to pick up a interesting data.

It's a ratio of each communication system(2G, 3G, WiFi), but 2G communication occupied whole mobile market(89.2%).

But it's a natural things, because Chinese mobile user already reached 1 billion people, but 3G user is still only 0.1 million as of Q4,2011.

But focusing to Android and iOS users, there are different trends that 3 pieces of communication style is antagonism.


In China, it's expected to start LTE experimental service in 2012. So, we have to pay attention for each carrier think much of 3G or LTE in this year...



Original article => Baidu mobile open platform