China finishes April with nigh on 600m mobile subscribers

If you think America’s a big mobile market, you’re wrong. Way wrong. Look east, mah boy, look east.

Cellular News reports that China’s mobile phone users now number around 583.5 million — adding another 8.9m subscribers in the month of April. Growth did actually slow — with net additions at 9.4m, but.. come on, that’s the size of a common-or-garden UK operator. Just staggering.