Up to 490,000 people made phone calls using the network of China Mobile, China's biggest mobile network operator, during the Beijing Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, a company spokesman said on Monday.

Almost 24,000 users made calls in and around the National Stadium, the Bird's Nest, during Sunday night's closing ceremony. The figure included about 20,000 international roaming service users.

At the August 8 opening ceremony, China Mobile registered more than 250,000 international roaming service users, said the spokesman.

The successful connection rate of China Mobile's network reached 100 percent and the disconnection rate was 0.27 percent, he said.

The WLAN network developed by China Mobile offered fast wireless transmission service to some 3,000 media reporters during the Games. China's self-developed 3G TD-SCDMA network was applied for the first time for the event.

More than 1.2 million China Mobile users watched the games on their mobile phones and 13 million users received Olympic newsletters.

(Xinhua News Agency August 26, 2008)