Telecommunications giant China Unicom saw 373,000 more mobile phone users subscribe to its CDMA network last month, the largest monthly growth since July last year, said China's largest portal website Wednesday.

 

The company's CDMA network provides services for more than 36 million mobile phone users, according to Sina.com.

 

Based on the CDMA (code division multiple access) technology, the network promotes itself on claims of a large capacity and high quality of communication as well as low radiation.

 

Subscribers to China Unicom's GSM (global system for mobile communication) network increased by 930,000 to about 105 million, bringing the company's total subscribers to 141 million by the end of November, said the website.

 

Both the CDMA and GSM networks posted consecutive increases in monthly new subscriptions since August, the website reported.

 

China Unicom is the country's second largest mobile operator only after China Mobile. Its operating revenue from CDMA reached 12.69 billion yuan (US$1.59 billion) in the first half of the year.

 

(Xinhua News Agency December 21, 2006)