China is the world's largest mobile telecommunications market, but it is far from saturated. Strong growth in incomes will support further increases in subscriptions in 2014-18, especially in rural areas. Rising incomes will also drive upgrading, notably to handsets that support 3G and 4G services. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), there were 1.23bn mobile-phone subscriptions at end-2013, representing a penetration rate of around 90.8%. Since developed economies typically have penetration rates of above 100%, there remains considerable room for growth.
The number of 3G customers had reached 401.6m by end-2013, according to MIIT, representing 32.7% of mobile-phone subscriptions. At end-2009 there had been only 12.3m 3G subscribers.

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