Numbers of the Week

27.3 million

In the first quarter, the number of mobile phone users subscribing to the service of China Mobile and China Unicom grew by 27.3 million. However, the number of fixed-line users, using services of China Netcom and China Telecom, continued a nine-month drop, losing 4.88 million customers.

593 million yuan

Ningbo Bird, once a leading cellphone manufacturer, experienced a 593-million-yuan ($85 million) loss in 2007. It blamed counterfeit cellphones for the profit slump.