China Mobile eyes 1.75b connections by 2020

China Mobile Communications Corp, the world's largest telecom carrier by subscribers, aims to enable 1.75 billion connections by 2020, as it is working hard to put home appliances, vehicles and other items online.

Shang Bing, chairman of China Mobile, said on Tuesday China will have at least 10 billion internet-enabled connections by 2020, accounting for one-fifth of global connections.

"We will step up efforts to expand our presence in the connected car sector, as part of our efforts to double the number of connections we had in 2015," he made the comments at the firm's global partners conference in Guangzhou.