China's Mobile Adoption

I'm starting to sound like a broken record with all this talk about China, but I can't seem to avoid running into important information about it.

I ran across some really crazy numbers on Joi Ito's site. According to Joi Ito, people in China are buying 90 million new mobile phones every YEAR. There are only 80 million total phones in Japan. Another interesting fact is that Japan is about to make pre-paid phones illegal because they're used in crime, but in China, about 80% of their mobile phones are pre-paid.