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China Mobile, China Unicom lose mobile subscribers in January

Monday 2 March 2020 | 14:17 CET | News
China Mobile lost 862,000 mobile customers in Janaury this year, compared to 3.73 million net additions in December 2019 and 2.95 customers adds in November 2019. China Telecom added 430,000 new subscribers, while China Unicom lost nearly 1.2 million users in January this year. China Mobile, however, remains by far the largest operator, with 949.4 million customers, of which 757.8 million are 4G users. China Telecom, which has been growing steadily in the past year, has moved into second place with 336 million mobile customers, compared to 317.2 million at Unicom.

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Categories: Mobile & Wireless
Companies: China Mobile / China Telecom / China Unicom
Countries: China
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