China's 3G users hit 9.77 mln by October
-- The number of Chinese users of the third-generation (3G)
mobile technology, or 3G, had hit 9.77 million by the end of October,
the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on
Tuesday.
China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, the country's top three
communication service providers, have invested over 102 billion yuan
(14.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 3G network construction this year, but
this still falls short of its target investment of 143.5 billion yuan,
according to MIIT figures.
Among the 9.77 million registered 3G users, China Mobile, the country's
biggest wireless service provider, alone had 3.94 million. (December 15,
2009 Xinhua)
China
tightens control on domain name registration -- Applications for
registering domain names will face strict rules as the country
intensifies its effort to fight against pornographic websites, the China
Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has announced Friday.
Applicants for domain name registration will be required to hand in
written application forms, with a business license and the applicant's
ID.
Liu Zhijiang, vice director of CNNIC confirmed the news saying that the
administration was determined to screen the applicant’s qualifications
strictly to stop individuals obtaining domain names using fake
information.
As mobile pornographic websites becomes rampant on the mainland, the
announcement is part of a recent campaign to crack down the illegal
application of domains. "The applications in written form other than
online application can make our work done more accurate," said Liu.
(December 14, 2009 China Daily)
China:
We'll keep Red Flag flying here
- China's forcing internet cafes
to upgrade from pirated software
- but is it using the
opportunity to spy on its
citizens?
China's
broadband users top 99.33 mln: China added 16.45 million broadband
users in the first nine months, bringing the total to 99.33 million,
data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)
on Tuesday showed.
China had 360
million Internet users by the end of September, said Zhu Jun, deputy
director of the telecom development department under the MIIT. The
figure was compared with 338 million by the end of June.
Broadband was
available in 96 percent of townships, and 91 percent of administrative
villages had access to Internet by the end of September.
China is also
pushing forward construction of 3G network. In the first nine months,
the top three telecommunication operators injected 96.1 billion yuan
(14.07 billion U.S. dollars) in building 3G network. (XinhuaOct. 27, 09)
E-commerce soars in China: study
SHANGHAI
(AFP) — Commerce on the Internet in China is expanding
rapidly, with spending rising 60 percent in the first half
of the year, an industry body said Wednesday.
China's
Internet users spent 256.1 billion yuan (37.5 billion
dollars) in the first six months of the year, up 58.2
percent from the same period in 2007, research institute
Data Centre of China Internet said in a report.
Spending
online for all of 2008 is expected to hit 587.4 billion yuan,
up 47.3 percent from the previous year, the Beijing-based
agency said.
"The
growth is mainly attributed to fast expansion of China's
Internet population and an increase in average online
consumption," it said.
During
the first six months of the year, Chinese netizens spent an
average of 211.8 yuan each month through the Internet, up
13.9 percent from a year earlier, the report said.
China's
online population became the largest in the world after it
reached 221 million in February, outnumbering United States
Internet users, according to reports in the Chinese press.
The
research institution said China's Internet population will
reach 263 million by the end of 2008, representing a 25
percent increase from the 210 million in 2007.
(AFP report,
July 16)
Total online
advertising in China is expected to reach 12.2 billion yuan
($1.76 billion) in 2008, growing 58.5 percent from last
year, according to the Data Center of the China Internet.
China's Internet consumption expected to rise 45.8% in 2008
BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's Internet consumption hit
398.8 billion yuan (53.89 billion U.S. dollars) last year
and is expected to reach 581.5 billion yuan in 2008, up 45.8
percent, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
The "Netguide 2008" survey, which provides a wrap-up of
China's2007 cyber world, polled more than 300 web sites and
about 200 enterprises, with 50,786 interviewees around the
country.
The Internet consumption includes all web-related expenses
such as broadband installment expenses, payment for online
game and shopping, and payment for IP phone services.
according to Fu Zhihua, director of the Data Center of the
China Internet (DCCI) research department that conducted the
survey.
The DCCI survey also reports that Sina Corp., Netease.com
Inc., Tencent and Sohu.com Inc., China's four largest
Internet portals, have gained most from the robust Internet
industry, accounting for about 76 percent of total web
portal revenue in China.
The market scale of financial web sites, fueled by bullish
trends in China's stock market, reached 920 million yuan,
and online search engines saw 82.8 percent growth to 2.87
billion yuan in 2007, said the survey.
The Netguide 2008 shows that among Internet users, browsing
daily news takes up 38.8 percent of their time, followed by
dealing with e-mail, 11 percent, and writing and reading
blogs, 9.2 percent.
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