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Thursday 19 July 2012
In BEIJING, most people in China use Mobile
Phones is a hot devices to get online rather than computers, the government
said on Thursday. It is also announced that the number of people who visit the network
reach 538 million!
China has two-fifth of the population use web, according to a
report from the state-linked China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)
which is a lot!
Till this year, people used computer to access internet more than using Mobile phones.
Till this year, people used computer to access internet more than using Mobile phones.
However, mobile phone allows more rural Chinese to go online in
some areas that is not covered by fixed-line networks, the report said. Hence,
the 52 percent of users who started using Internet this year are from the
countryside.
"Mobile phones are a cheaper and more convenient way to access the Internet for (residents in) China's vast rural areas and for the enormous migrant population," said the report.
Increase up to 388 million of people use mobile phones to go online for the first half of this year, up to 9.2 percent from the end of 2011. While 380 million of people used computer.
"Smartphones are more and more powerful and there is a new wave of mobile application innovation," the report said.
"Meanwhile, mobile phone prices continued to drop -- the emergence of smartphones under 1,000 yuan ($157) sharply lowered the threshold for using the devices and encouraged average mobile phone users to become mobile web surfers."
"Mobile phones are a cheaper and more convenient way to access the Internet for (residents in) China's vast rural areas and for the enormous migrant population," said the report.
Increase up to 388 million of people use mobile phones to go online for the first half of this year, up to 9.2 percent from the end of 2011. While 380 million of people used computer.
"Smartphones are more and more powerful and there is a new wave of mobile application innovation," the report said.
"Meanwhile, mobile phone prices continued to drop -- the emergence of smartphones under 1,000 yuan ($157) sharply lowered the threshold for using the devices and encouraged average mobile phone users to become mobile web surfers."
There is an increase of five percent from end of the last year from
out of 538 million people online in China.
Weibbos, microblogging services similar to Twitter is going to
banned in China by the end of the June. More than half of China’s internet population
will be affected.
Beijing often used an online censorship system, the Great Firewall
of China, to block sensitive Internet postings.
Nevertheless, web users often use weibos which have become the
most popular social networking to rant their anger over corruption, scandals
and disasters, or inform people about protests and riots.
This encouraged the Chinese authorities to come
out with a plan of tightening the control of the services, including making
their users register under their real names.
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