China Mobile officially passed the half-billion subscriber count mark as of the end of August.

The carrier has a phone in the pocket of nearly 38 percent of the population. For comparison’s sake, the biggest carrier in the US clocks in at under 29 percent — never mind the fact that China has over 1.3 billion people.
If China Mobile were a US carrier, it’d be providing every American man, woman, and child with about 1.65 phones (and OPhones).

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