- Market leader China Mobile (CHL +2.7%) led mobile subscriber adds among the big three Chinese wireless firms for August, while China Unicom (CHU +0.8%) shed subs in a few areas as the month's customer numbers came in.
- China Mobile added 1.3M net subscribers for mobile, to hit 820.1M customers, and its 4G base grew to 229.2M subs from 208.8M, while 3G customers fell to 202.6M from 209.8M.
- Unicom lost 556,000 mobile subs to end up with 287.8M in August. The company lost 278,000 local access subs to end August with 77.4M. Mobile broadband users grew, though, by 4.7M subs to 167.6M, and fixed broadband grew by 478,000 to 71.53M.
- Meanwhile, China Telecom (CHA +1.2%) added 900,000 mobile subs to end the month with 193.1M. It also grew fixed broadband slightly, to 110.5M accesses from 110M, and fixed telephony shrank slightly, to 137.6M lines in services from the previous 138.4M.