Mainland mobile-phone carrier China Unicom will probably miss its target of adding 11 million CDMA subscribers by the end of next month, a senior executive at the company says.
With just 7.09 million new CDMA customers signed up at the end of September, meeting the goal would be 'extremely difficult', executive vice-president Shi Cuiming said yesterday.
In total, the red-chip firm has 13.34 million users for the network, launched in January last year.
'We will need to spend a lot more effort to achieve our target,' Mr Shi said.
Unicom's CDMA network covers 21 provinces.
The No2 operator would need to sign up four million more subscribers in less than two months to go to meet its target by the end of the year.
In the first nine months, it signed up an average of 788,667 CDMA users monthly.
