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May 20, 2020 In April, two of the main Chinese mobile operators, China Mobile and China Telecom collected over 17 million new 5G subscriptions in April, bringing the overall total in the country to 65.45 million, six months after introduction of the service, notes Mobile World.

China's top three mobile operators had officially launched 5G at the end of October 2019 in 50 cities, five months after the Beijing government had assigned licenses.

The market leader remains China Mobile, which has added 12.02 million users to the fifth generation mobile network, for a total of 43.7 million. In April it recorded a net profit of 432,000 mobile subscribers for a total of 946.7 million.

China Telecom added 5.09 million subscribers to 5G in the same period, for a total of 21.7 million users. The net increase was 1.97 million, which brought the overall user base to 338.5 million.

However, there is no data on China Unicom, the country's third largest TLC company, which did not release the number of 5G subscribers in April or in the first three months of 2020.

China Mobile vice president, Jian Qin, said he wanted to arrive to 100 million subscribers to 5G networks by the end of the year and to have installed 124,000 compatible exchanges in 56 cities, which will become 300,000 by the end of the year.