China Mobile Now Serving Half a Billion Customers

China Mobile has become the first wireless carrier in the world to cross the 500 million subscriber-mark. The company has added 45.7 million new subscribers so far in 2009, and now has 502.9 million subscribers. (Photo by Oskay via Flickr.)

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