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# Appendix 1: Statistical Data on China's Telecommunications Industry in 2006

Throughout 2006, the total volume of telecommunications services completed reached 1.5321 trillion yuan, representing a year-on-year growth of 25.6%. Among this total, the volume of telecom services stood at 1.45921 trillion yuan (up 26.1%), and the volume of postal services was 72.89 billion yuan (up 16.9%). The revenue from telecommunications services amounted to 712.06 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 11.6%. Specifically, telecom service revenue was 648.38 billion yuan (up 11.7%), and postal service revenue was 63.68 billion yuan (up 10.8%). The added value of the telecommunications industry reached 464.17 billion yuan, growing by 11.6% year-on-year. Fixed-asset investment in the telecommunications sector totaled 222.68 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.5%. Of this investment, 218.69 billion yuan was allocated to telecom (up 7.5%) and 3.99 billion yuan to postal services (up 5.3%).

In 2006, the total number of telephone subscribers nationwide exceeded 800 million, and the number of mobile phone subscribers surpassed 400 million. The number of fixed-line telephone subscribers increased by 17.367 million, reaching a total of 367.812 million. Among fixed-line subscribers, wireless local telephone (WLL) subscribers rose by 5.827 million to 91.127 million, and public telephone subscribers increased by 3.011 million to 29.823 million. The number of mobile phone subscribers grew by 67.677 million, totaling 461.082 million. Mobile packet data subscribers increased by 67.288 million, reaching 138.094 million. The penetration rates of fixed-line telephones and mobile phones stood at 28.1 units per 100 people and 35.3 units per 100 people, respectively. Among internet subscribers of basic telecom operators: dial-up subscribers numbered 26.42 million, a year-on-year decrease of 9.175 million; dedicated line subscribers reached 62,136, down by 4,927 year-on-year; and broadband access subscribers hit 51.899 million, an increase of 14.549 million year-on-year. Within broadband access subscribers, xDSL subscribers accounted for 37.12 million, LAN subscribers for 14.492 million, and WLAN subscribers for 25,000. The total number of internet users in the whole society increased by approximately 26 million, reaching 137 million.

In terms of fixed-line telephone traffic in 2006: intra-regional calls within local networks reached 77.57 billion, a decrease of 6.2%; local calls within districts totaled 601.95 billion, down by 3.1%; the duration of traditional fixed-line domestic long-distance calls was 97.24 billion minutes, up 8.8%; international call duration reached 590 million minutes, an increase of 7.9%; call duration to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan stood at 610 million minutes, a decrease of 1.1%; and the volume of WLL short messages was 29.8 billion, growing by 24.2%.

Regarding mobile phone traffic in 2006: the duration of local calls was 1.58827 trillion minutes, up 34.7%; the duration of domestic long-distance calls reached 97.78 billion minutes, an increase of 37.0%; international call duration was 420 million minutes, growing by 24.5%; call duration to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan stood at 400 million minutes, up 21.1%; and the volume of mobile short messages totaled 429.67 billion, a year-on-year increase of 41.0%. In terms of IP phone traffic: the duration of domestic long-distance calls was 146.56 billion minutes, up 11.1%; international call duration reached 1.23 billion minutes, a decrease of 12.0%; and call duration to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan was 1.07 billion minutes, down by 8.1%. The duration of interconnection calls for fixed-line telephones was 264.72 billion minutes, up 29.8%; that for mobile phones was 363.35 billion minutes, an increase of 19.4%; and the volume of interconnection mobile short messages reached 72.01 billion, growing by 40.3%.

In 2006, the total length of optical fiber cables nationwide increased by 186,000 kilometers, reaching 425,900 kilometers; the length of optical fiber cores rose by 12.968 million core-kilometers, totaling 88.934 million core-kilometers. The capacity of fixed long-distance telephone exchanges increased by 769,000 line-ends, reaching 14.485 million line-ends. The capacity of central office switches grew by 30.665 million lines, totaling 502.626 million lines. Among central office switches, the capacity of access network equipment increased by 23.414 million lines, reaching 234.622 million lines. The capacity of mobile phone switches rose by 128.181 million subscriber lines, totaling 610.599 million subscriber lines. Basic telecom operators added 16.067 million broadband access ports, with the total number reaching 64.814 million. The national international internet export bandwidth was 256,696 Mbps, the total number of websites was 843,000, and the total number of domain names was 4.109 million.

Note: This data is sourced from the "China Communications Statistical Annual Report (2006)" of the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China.