Whether you call it 502 million or ‘over half a billion’, there’s no denying that China Mobile has a lot of customers. It’s just released its August 2009 figures, which show it ended the month with a customer base of 502,936,000 connections.
China Mobile is the country’s largest network; its closest competitor is China Unicom with 141,864,000 customers. [China Mobile; China Unicom (pdf)]