China, World’s Biggest Telecom Market now plans to invest about USD 18 billion in 3G data services in 2010 as the country became the home to the largest telephone network in the world, with total number of phone users crossing 1.1 billion, including 800 million mobile users. The 3G services allow for video calls between 3G subscribers, and television and Internet access. It would allow users to make telephone calls, surf the Internet and watch television through a singe cable or wireless entrance.

China’s third-generation (3G) mobile phone service subscribers went up by 40 per cent, totaling 25.2 million subscribers at the end of June, Zhang Feng, an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said today. (more…)