BEIJING - China's telecom industry reported 901.15 billion yuan ($142.47 billion) in primary business revenue in the first 11 months, up 9.6 percent year-on-year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Thursday.

The growth rate was 3 percentage points more than that of the previous year, the MIIT said in a statement posted on its website.

Revenue from mobile telecommunication accounted for 72.34 percent of the total, up 2.51 percentage points from a year earlier, while the rest of revenue came from fixed-line businesses.

China's telephone users totaled 1.26 billion by the end of November, with fixed-line telephone users dropping 7.93 million in the first 11 months to 286.42 million, according to the statement.

The country had 975.34 million mobile phone users by November, as 116.33 million new users signed up in the first 11 months, the statement said.