Beijing Has 97 Handsets For Every 100 People

Pacific Epoch reports:

Beijing had 97 handset user accounts for every 100 residents at the end of 2005, Beijing Daily reports quoting statistics from the National Bureau Of Statistics (NBS). There were 14.7 million mobile phone users in Beijing by the end of 2005, 1.293 million more than in 2004. Beijing added 1.026 million fixed line users in 2005, bringing Beijing's fixed line user accounts to 9.5 million.