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Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: number of users hit 786.5 million

According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of mobile phone users in China reached 786.5 million at the end of April/2010 […]

According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of mobile phone users in China reached 786.5 million at the end of April/2010:

In April alone, users increased by 9.63 million, or 1.2 percent month-on-month, bringing the number of telephone users – both fixed line and mobile – to 1.09 billion. The number of Chinese households using fixed line telephones, however, fell by 6.14 million to 307.55 million, the ministry said.

via Mobile phone users hit 786.5m in April.

By Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as VP of Design Strategy at SAP and lecturer of Project Management for UX at the M.Sc. Usability Engineering at the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences .

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in multiple continents create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Itamar holds a MA in Design Practice from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), for which he received a Distinction Award for his thesis Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments.

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