# Telecommunications

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**Published on:** 2021-10-29
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China is the largest telecom market in the world and currently has the largest number of active cellphones of any country in the world, with over 1.5 billion subscribers, as of 2018.[454] It also has the world's largest number of internet and broadband users, with over 800 million Internet users as of 2018—equivalent to around 60% of its population—and almost all of them being mobile as well.[455] By 2018, China had more than 1 billion 4G users, accounting for 40% of world's total.[456] China is making rapid advances in 5G—by late 2018, China had started large-scale and commercial 5G trials.[457] China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, are the three large providers of mobile and internet in China. China Telecom alone served more than 145 million broadband subscribers and 300 million mobile users; China Unicom had about 300 million subscribers; and China Mobile, the biggest of them all, had 925 million users, as of 2018.[458][459][460] Combined, the three operators had over 3.4 million 4G base-stations in China.[461] Several Chinese telecommunications companies, most notably Huawei and ZTE, have been accused of spying for the Chinese military.[462] China has developed its own satellite navigation system, dubbed Beidou, which began offering commercial navigation services across Asia in 2012[463] as well as global services by the end of 2018.[464][465] The 35th and final satellite of Beidou constellation was launched into orbit on 23 June 2020, thus becoming the 3rd completed global navigation satellite system in service after GPS and GLONASS.

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