July 20, 2011
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released its 28th Statistical Report on the internet development yesterday. China’s mobile internet users numbered 318 million, adding 84.3 million since the end of 2009. Some other findings are as follows:
1. The mobile IM represents the highest rates of mobile internet usage with 71.8%; the second is mobile news 62.6%. Large mobile IM user base and high mobile IM pre-installed rate contributed to this result.
2. Mobile micro-blogging represents 34.0% mobile internet usage, adding 18.5% since late 2010. The rapid expansion of mobile micro-blogging has two reasons: micro-blogging has developed very fast in 2011 and the user base is very large; micro-blogging is a very good mobile online application.
3. The mobile flow fee is still very high, which has prevented mobile Internet users from enjoying mobile music, mobile video, mobile games etc. Though the 3G service developed fast in 2011, the user base is still very small.
4. With the popularity of smart phones, mobile phone software installation has improved to 46.8%. Client based application service will surpass the web based application service very soon.