China Unicom's mobile subscribers grow 0.6% in June

File photo of China Unicom exhibiting at an expo of Internet of Things in Shanghai. [Photo/ Asianewsphoto]

BEIJING - China Unicom, one of China's three State-owned telecom companies, added 1.71 million new mobile subscribers in June, bringing the total number to 295 million.

It had 67.4 million fixed-line broadband subscribers by the end of June, an increase of 363,000 from a month earlier, the company said earlier this week in a statement.

However, the company continues to lose fixed-line telephone subscribers, with the total number decreasing to 86.07 million by the end of June, down 776,000 from May.

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