China mobile internet monthly active users (MAUs) grew by 1% as of 31 March 2016, according to the data from QuestMobile.
Android users take up a large market share with an increment of 90 million a year while iOS users 50 million.
Over half of China's internet users come from the first-tier and second-tier cities.
In term of the mobile terminals, Samsung enjoys a high penetration rate across all city tiers, followed by Xiaomi and Huawei; the penetration rate of Huawei in the first-tier cities (15.8%) is close to that of Xiaomi (16.6%); Oppo and Vivo are popular in the second-tier, the third-tier, and the forth-tier cities.
4G internet has a penetration rate of 49.3% in the first-tier cities; and, it is at least 40% in other cities.
Users in lower tier cities rely on Wi-Fi more; and, the daily average usage of 4G is roughly 14 or 15 MB, almost twice the amount of the 2G or 3G.
The average daily online duration per user of Wi-Fi is over 90 mins on average, followed by 4G which is 61.9 mins in the first-tier cities and goes down to 50.1 mins in the fourth-tier cities and below.
Users in the first-tier cities tend to download and us...
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