From AFX, via Forbes.com:
China added a total of 48.22 mln mobile phone subscribers in the first ten months of the year, bringing the total number to 383.04 mln, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) said.
In a statement on its website, it also said the country booked 36.84 mln new subscribers to fixed-line services during the January-October period, bringing the total number to 348.59 mln by the end of October.