Typhoons in China

“Mobile phones are so common in China that almost one in three of its 1.3 billion people has one, making them a rival power to television and radio in reaching the public”,this USA Today article says.”In Fujian, authorities have sent 18 million messages,known as SMS, for short message service,with storm information during five typhoons this year, according to the provincial governmen”t.Further,”China has by far the world’s biggest population of mobile phone users — 426 million as of last month and growing rapidly. And that figure long ago surpassed the country’s 365 million fixed-line phones.Mobile phone use has spread from affluent urban consumers to blue collar workers and farmers in the poor countryside. It isn’t unusual to find villages with no fixed lines but dozens of mobile customers”.