By the end of 2002, every 100 people in Hainan owned 32 telephones In that year the province had 1.37 million local telephone subscribers, 1.098 million mobile phone users, in addition to 1.1 million wireless pager customers.

A modern communication network has been set up in Hainan. Digital microwave communication has been realized in central, eastern, southern and northern Hainan. Program-controlled switching, digitalized long-distance transmission, mobile phone roaming, and automatic beep-paging have been achieved in all cities, counties and Economic Development Zones (OEZ) at the provincial level, whose residents can reach people in China’s 1,900 cities and 230-odd countries and regions in the world through direct distance dialing (DDD).