BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Here are facts about China's telecom industry.

    Business volume totaled 1.095 trillion yuan (160.2 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half, up 25.9 percent year on year; business revenue hit 398.8 billion yuan, up 9.2 percent compared with a year earlier.

    State-run corporation: China Telecom and China Netcom in the fixed-line business; China Mobile and China Unicom in the mobile sector.

    Fix-line subscribers: 356 million as of June.

    Mobile users: 601 million as of June.

    GSM and CDMA subscribers stood at 160 million through last year, among which more than 40 million used CDMA.

    People sent 592.1 billion text messages through 2007, 1.6 billion on average per day. The number of spam messages reached 353.8 billion, up 92.7 percent from a year earlier.

    Nokia held a 32.5 percent of market share in the first half, the biggest among mobile brands. Motorola and Samsung ranked second and third respectively. Domestic brand Lenovo took the fourth position, accounting for a 3.8 percent market share.

    The number of Chinese netizens reached 253 million through June, up 56.2 percent from 162 million in 2007, the most in the world.

    Through last year, broadband users hit 122 million, ranking first in the world.

    The registered "CN" domain topped 12.18 million as of July 22

    In the first half, computer virus and Trojan registered more than 1.24 million, surging 338 percent over last year.