China is definitely plugged in. Their 3G mobile phone users list just reached 102 million by the end of September. Nearly half of these people, or 43.16 million, use the country’s self-developed TD-SCDMA standard. This according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The State Council’s Information Office recently held a press conference at which Xiao Chunquan, the director general of the Bureau of Operation Monitoring and Coordination of MIIT said that China’s telephone users hit 1.24 billion at September’s end.