"With 330 million subscribers as of June, China Mobile serves five times as many customers as At&T, the largest U.S. carrier since acquiring Cingular last year, and continues to sign five million new users a month....and transmits 1.2 billion text messages every day....
In rural China, home to two-thirds of China's 1.3 billion people, the
carrier has launched an aggressive expansion drive, joining with
government agricultural bureaus to beam farmers in remote hamlets
advice on improving harvests and where to get the best prices for their
crops. China Mobile's wireless network now stretches from Hong Kong to
the Himalayas, offering mobile coverage to 97% of China's citizens. Its
signal comes in strong on the Beijing subway, inside Shanghai
elevators, in Guangxi rice paddies - even atop Mount Everest..."
Fortune
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