Some mobile stats from China Mobile via FierceMobile Content:

– China Mobile subscribers sent 607.1 billion text messages in 2008, up more than 100 billion over the operator’s 2007 SMS totals.

– According to China Mobile, its subscriber count is now closing in on the 464 million mark–in all, China boasts about 650 million mobile subscribers nationwide.

– China Mobile customers purchased 76 million full-track music downloads in 2008,

– Another 41.5 million paid for mobile newspaper content, up a third over 2007 totals–the carrier now offers 110 different news periodicals.