BEIJING-The subscriber growth of China Unicom’s CDMA network is gaining momentum. After launching the network in January, initial subscriber growth was sluggish. It took the company more than 5 months to reach the 1 million mark on 10 June, a much slower growth than anticipated, since China Unicom had hoped to sign up 7 million subscribers by year-end.
But the second million was already signed up by August 15, and in early October the company announced it had broken the 3 million mark.
China Unicom is now constructing the second phase of its CDMA network and performing an upgrade to CDMA 1x.
Marketing and sales manager Ye Fengping expects subscriber numbers to soar to 50 million by 2005. A growth target for next year has not been announced, yet but is expected to top 10 million.
