Posts and telecommunications of Hubei province accomplished 53.1 billion RMB yuan worth of services in 2007, with an increase of 16.1% over the previous year. The total length of long-distance optical cables reached 23,200 km; Switching machines amounted to 17.49 million, with an increase of 615,000; Fixed telephone users totaled 12.79 million, with an decrease of 452,000, of which 8.78 million were urban users, 4 million were rural users; Mobile phone users totaled 19.41 million, with an increase of 2.97 million. Every 100 people have 56.6 telephone lines. The Internet users reached 2.43 million.