China Mobile added 1.85 million 3G users in November to reach a total of 18.83 million 3G users, both phone and data card users, half of the country’s total. By the end of November, the number of China Mobile’s users hit 579 million, ranking it the world’s No 1 telco by subscribers. Rival China Unicom said it added 1.12 million new 3G subscribers in November, with an aggregate 3G subscriber base of 12.78 million. The country’s second-biggest telco reported net additions of 2G subscribers of 604,000 in November, bringing its total 2G user numbers to 152.749 million. China Unicom lost 734,000 wire-line subscribers in November, reducing the total number of wire-line subscribers to 98.55 million. The company added 300,000 broadband subscribers in the same month to bring the total to 46.93 million users.