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China Mobile


China Mobile is the No. 1 mobile phone operator in China and the world's largest mobile phone operator, by the number of subscribers.

Headquartered in China, it was officially established in 2000. The Chinese giant has a staff headcount of 127,959 people who serve 436.12 million subscribers around the world.

China Mobile's business portfolio includes services in mobile voice, Internet access, data, IP telephony and multimedia. It operates under the "GoTone", "M-zone" and "Easyown" brands in Mainland China, the "Peoples" brand in Hong Kong and "ZoNG" in Pakistan.

China Mobile is said to be in talks with Apple to bring the iPhone to China, and the Chinese mobile operator is rumored to be asking Apple to build a modified verson of the iPhone so as to prevent iPhone users from defecting to other networks until its own 3G network is available.

This company is listed in Networking & Communications.



Financials
Fiscal year-end December FY08 FY07 FY06 FY05 FY04
Global revenue (US$millions) — 48,452.6 37,761.8 30,095.9 23,244.2
Global full-year net income (US$millions) — 11,833.4 8,452.7 6,635.9 5,046.9
Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years 27.75%
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years 32.95%
Percentage of revenue from Asia —

Operations
Founded 1997 Hong Kong
First Asian office 1997 Hong Kong
Global employees 127,959
Global employees in Asia —
Asian economies: Total 2 China, Hong Kong

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