China Unicom adds 1.63 million users in Mar

China Unicom Ltd<600050><762>, the smaller one of China's two mobile operators, said on Friday it added 1.63 million users in March and 1.49 million in February.

By last month end, its total subscribers amounted to 167 million, compared with 165 million by the end of February.

Subscribers of its GSM service (Global System for Mobile communication network) increased 1.32 million to 124 million in March from 123 million by February end.

CDMA users reached 42.8 million last month, up from 42.5 million in February.

Its bigger rival China Mobile Ltd<941>, the nation's largest mobile phone operator, reported last month users increased 7.97 million in February, up from 7.04 million a month earlier, however, the figure for March is not available now.