From Associated Press: “The number of mobile phone users, the biggest in the world, long ago outstripped the number of fixed line users, which stood at 310 million by the end of last month, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the Ministry of Information Industry.

From January to October, mobile phone short message traffic soared by 62 percent over the same period a year earlier to more than 176.1 billion messages, it said. ”