(Telecompaper) The number of Chinese mobile subscribers topped 1.28 billion at the end of December. China Telecom ended December with a total of 185.62 million mobile telephony subscribers, up from 184.14 million in November. China Unicom had over 299 million mobile subscribers at 31 December, following net additions of 797,000 subscribers during the month. China Mobile reached 806.6 million mobile telephony subscribers in December 2014, up from 803.8 million at the end of November.