U.S. mobile phone users increased by 25 million 700 thousand is still less than half of Chinese

Cellular telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) said Thursday that last year the United States added 25 million 700 thousand mobile phone users, setting a new record.

In a survey of the U.S. mobile phone market, CTIA pointed out that by the end of 2005, U.S. mobile phone users reached 207 million 900 thousand, compared with the end of 2004 increased by 14%. This shows that the United States has 69% of the population has a cell phone.

CTIA said that 6% of U.S. households use mobile phones only.

Despite the sharp increase in the number of mobile phone users in the United States last year, but still less than half of China, China Mobile alone, the number of users exceeded the number of mobile phone users in the United states. According to the Ministry of information industry, as of the end of last year, the number of mobile phone users in China was 393 million in 2005, an increase of 5860 new subscribers. China Mobile alone last year, an increase of 4236 new users, the total number of users up to 246 million 700 thousand. February, China's mobile phone users clashed 400 million mark, reaching 404 million.

India's growth rate is higher. According to the India Telecommunications Authority data show that as of the end of last year, India mobile phone users was 75 million 920 thousand, an increase of more than 2004 by 58%.

According to Informa data show that last year the global mobile phone users reached 2 billion.