China Unicom announced this morning that it had reached 159.6 million 2G (GSM) and 40 million 3G (WCDMA) subscribers by year-end 2011. Net additions for December were 0.2 million (2G), and 3.5 million (3G). On the fixed-side, local access subscribers ended the year at 92.9 million and broadband subs at 55.7 million.