The latest data released by China Mobile (CHL), China Unicom (CHU) and China Telecom (CHA) shows that all these three major telecom operators saw an increase of new users in November.

Of the three, China Mobile received 4.67 million new users in November which made its total user reach 296.4 million by the end of the month. China Unicom saw an increase of 1.3 million new users, of which 930,000 were GSM users and 373,000 were CDMA users, and its total user number reached 141.1 million by the end of November. China Telecom increased 690000 new users in the month, which added its total telephone users to 222.4 million.

Generally speaking, China Telecom's user increase has slowed down with the replacement of fixed phones with mobile phones.