China first country to hit 1 billion mobile subscribers

The number of mobile phone subscribers in the world's most populated country,China, has now exceeded 1 million. According to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, subscribers had reached 997 million in late February and had been expected to exceed 1 billion by the month's end. The number of mobile users in China has doubled in the past five years, topping the 500 million mark back in 2007.

China is just ahead of India in terms of mobile subscribers, but in coming years it is expected that India will overtake China as India is becoming the largest market for mobile industry and telecommunications industry.