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Selected Quarterly Unaudited Key Performance Indicators
  2007/Q2 2007/Q3 2007/Q4 2008/Q1# 2008/Q2*
Local Access Lines in Service (Million) 224.49 223.44 220.33 217.17 214.89
including: Household 123.47 123.14 121.75 121.28 120.67
Government & Enterprise 23.41 24.06 24.81 25.41 26.46
Public Telephone 15.74 15.79 15.73 15.73 15.77
Wireless Local Access 61.87 60.45 58.04 54.75 51.99
Net Add of Local Access Lines in Service (Million) 0.71 (1.05) (3.11) (3.16) (2.28)
Broadband Subscribers (Million) 32.19 33.89 35.65 37.71 39.95
Net Add of Broadband Subscribers (Million) 1.69 1.70 1.76 2.06 2.24
Local Voice Usage (Billion Pulses) 102.71 104.98 98.77 94.03 95.68
Domestic Long Distance Usage (Billion Minutes) 25.12 25.42 24.64 23.66 26.20
International (including Hong Kong, Macau and
   Taiwan) Long Distance Usage
   (Billion Minutes)
0.40 0.43 0.37 0.36 0.42
SMS Usage Volume (Million Messages) 6,128 6,028 5,536 4,866 4,801
Color Ring Tone Subscribers (Million) 47.96 56.43 63.19 67.20 73.50
Operating Revenue (RMB Million) 44,840 45,075 44,957 44,160 46,274
Excluding Upfront Connection Fees:
   Operating Revenue (RMB Million) 44,007 44,262 44,142 43,646 45,760
   EBITDA (RMB Million) 21,976 22,038 19,385 22,671 23,297
   Profit attributable to Equity Holders of the
   Company (RMB Million)
5,596 5,442 5,259 6,251 5,930

Net profit for 2007 was arrived at excluding deficit on revaluation of property, plant and equipment (RMB2,755 million) and related tax impact arising from across-the-board revaluation which was conducted every 3 years.

# For the first quarter of 2008, despite facing the challenges from the intense market competition and the increased diversity in communication means, the Group had successfully maintained its solid fundamentals. The Group grasped the opportunities brought by informatisation to tackle various challenges, and promoted the scale development of transformation businesses to drive revenue growth. Additionally, capitalizing on the customer brands operation and effective packaged sales of voice and transformation businesses, the Group endeavored to foster customer loyalty and mitigate the loss in voice revenue, progressively transforming voice usage value to integrated information services.

* The data included the impact of Beijing Telecom, acquisition of which was completed in June 2008, and excluded the financial impact of increasing Network Operations & Support expenses of approximately RMB1,700 mil (after-tax impact of approximately RMB1,281 mil) due to snowstorm and earthquake in 1H2008, and income tax savings of RMB706 mil resulting from the new Income Tax Law.

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