China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited (NYSE: CHU, SEHK: 0762, SHSE: 600050), the country's leading telecom carrier, today publishes its business reports in October. 
As of October 2008, the number of the company's GSM mobile phone users amounted to 131.945 million in all, increasing 1.219 million in October alone. The number of local telephone subscribers totaled 106.537 million, a drop of 792,000 in the month. And the number of broadband users arrived at 25.204 million, 345,000 users added in the month.

China Unicom had sold its CDMA business before October 1, 2008, and thus it stopped reporting the related data.

Moreover, China Unicom merged with China Netcom, another Chinese telecom carrier, on October 15 in accordance with the country's plan for telecom industry regrouping.

Until late September, the number of China Netcom's local telephone users was 107.329 million, and the number of broadband users reached 24.859 million.

source:SinoCast