Signs that 2G is dying in China continue to rain upon us like, well, rain. At this point just browsing our recent stories tagged 3G will give you a pretty good idea of what’s going on, but here’s the latest update in 3G’s relentless march toward domination of China’s mobile networks: China Unicom picked up more than three million new 3G subscribers in June alone. That’s not a huge surprise as that number does fall within Unicom’s predicted growth for June, but it’s still a telling sign that 3G is growing quickly. It brings China Unicom’s total 3G subscribers up beyond 57 million.
Moreover, 2G may not be quite as dead as everyone has been predicting; the company also picked up 380,000 new 2G subscribers in June. Not too shabby, that. In the release of June data last night, Unicom also noted that it had picked up 860,000 new broadband customers and 60,000 new dial-up accounts. Count that among the growing pile of evidence that China’s wired internet users are growing quickly, too, even if more Chinese users access the net via mobiles these days.
As 3G grows in China, China Mobile’s unpopular TD-SCDMA 3G network causes that company to lose ground to competitors Unicom and Telecom. China Mobile, however, is out in front with its 4G TD-LTE network, and could well dominate that market whenever it is finally allowed to make it commercially available.
[Securities Daily via Sina Tech]
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