10s of millions of cellphone subscriptions vanishing in China.

Discussion in 'Economics' started by Amun Ra, Mar 28, 2020.

  1. Amun Ra

    Amun Ra

    Very odd. If it's coronavirus related, would 80k infected and 3k dead equal nearly 30 million cell phone subscriptions canceled?

    These are Chinas 2 largest providers. Going back all the way to jan 2016, they've never lost subscribers until this year.

    https://www.chinamobileltd.com/en/ir/operation_m.php?year=2019&scroll2title=1

    This is about 3% of all cellphones subscriptions vanishing in 60 days. What's going on?

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  2. zdreg

    zdreg

    According to my calculations it is less than one percent .
     
  3. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    So inline, with C19 deaths, if health care swamped them.

    Nasty!!

    Good Find!!!
     
  4. Maybe virus victims and China doesn't want to admit it?
     
  5. A simpler explanation is that a bunch of migrant workers went back to rural areas because of the economic downturn (there is over 200 million migrant workers in China). But that would not be as exciting, of course.
     
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  6. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    Maybe skint and had to cancel contracts as lost there jobs ?? Maybe dead?
     
  7. “When you hear hoofbeats in the night, look for horses, not zebras.”
     
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  8. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    I'd say 10Mil was inline, with that " ERROR " which kept flashing up huge numbers for no reason.

    No update on infections / deaths for the 27th yet for China, everyone else has updated, also ODD!!
     
  9. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    And remember China was just implimenting the new rule where all phone contracts have to be identified by a face or be disconnected. That will have killed a lot of burners.
     
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  10. Turveyd

    Turveyd

    Surely in a place with Zebra's and no horses that'd be stupid ??

    I'll look for what ever the hell is about to trample me and try to get above!
     
    #10     Mar 28, 2020