In the first eight months, the total volume of telecommunications business has grown steadily, the construction and application of 5G, gigabit optical networks and other networks have continued to advance, the number of connected users has steadily expanded, and mobile Internet access traffic has maintained a rapid growth trend.

1. Overall operation situation

In the first eight months, telecommunications business revenue accumulated to 1.16 trillion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 2.2%.The total telecommunications business volume calculated at constant prices in the previous year increased by 7.6% year-on-year.

2. Development of telecommunications users

The number of fixed broadband access users has steadily expanded, and the number of Gigabit users continues to increase.As of the end of August, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 704 million, a net increase of 13.65 million from the end of the previous year.Among them, fixed Internet broadband access users with access speeds of 100Mbps and above reached 674 million, accounting for 95.6% of the total number of users; fixed Internet broadband access users with access speeds of 1,000Mbps and above reached 263 million, a net increase of 24.27 million households from the end of the previous year, accounting for 37.3% of the total number of users, and an increase of 2.8 percentage points from the end of the previous year.

The number of mobile phone users has increased steadily, and the scale of 5G users continues to expand.As of the end of August, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies and China Radio and Television reached 1.849 billion, a net increase of 22.16 million from the end of the previous year.Among them,5G mobile phone users reached 1.311 billion, a net increase of 107 million from the end of the previous year, accounting for 70.9% of mobile phone users.

Mobile IoT end users are growing rapidly.As of the end of August, the three basic telecommunications companies had developed 3.07 billion mobile IoT end users, a net increase of 182 million from the end of the previous year.The number of Internet TV (IPTV, OTT) users reached 408 million, a decrease of 84,000 from the end of the previous year.

3. Telecom business usage

Cumulative mobile Internet access traffic maintained double-digit growth, and the DOU value remained at a high level in August.In the first eight months, the cumulative mobile Internet access traffic reached 297.1 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 17.3%.As of the end of August, the number of mobile Internet users reached 1.638 billion, a net increase of 28.58 million from the end of the previous year.In August, the average mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) per household reached 23.45GB/household-month, a year-on-year increase of 12.4%, and 0.41GB/household-month higher than the end of the previous year.

Phone call volume continues to decline.In the first eight months, the duration of outbound calls on mobile phones reached 1.3 trillion minutes, a year-on-year decrease of 6.7%; the duration of outbound calls on fixed-line phones reached 37.3 billion minutes, a decrease of 17.6% year-on-year.In the first eight months, the national mobile SMS business volume fell by 9.8% year-on-year; mobile SMS business revenue fell by 12.4% year-on-year.

4. Communication ability

The construction of gigabit optical fiber broadband network continues to advance.As of the end of August, the number of Internet broadband access ports nationwide reached 1.27 billion, a net increase of 23.22 million from the end of the previous year.Among them, the number of optical fiber access (FTTH/O) ports reached 1.23 billion, a net increase of 21.16 million compared with the end of the previous year, accounting for 96.7% of Internet broadband access ports.As of the end of August, the number of 10G PON ports with gigabit network service capabilities reached 33.25 million, a net increase of 1.629 million from the end of the previous year.

5G base stations account for nearly 40%.As of the end of August, the total number of 5G base stations reached 5.195 million, a net increase of 357,000 from the end of the previous year, accounting for 39.7% of the total number of mobile base stations, and an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the previous seven months.

5. Regional Development

The penetration rate of 5G and Gigabit users in various regions continues to increase.As of the end of August, the penetration rates of fixed broadband access users of 1000Mbps and above in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions were 36.6%, 38%, 38.7% and 32.8% respectively, an increase of 2 and 3% respectively from the end of the previous year.4.1, 2.6 and 3.8 percentage points; the penetration rates of 5G mobile phone users were 70.3%, 71.9%, 71% and 71.6% respectively, which were 4.8, 5.4, 5.1 and 5.1 percentage points respectively higher than the end of the previous year.

The cumulative mobile Internet access traffic in various regions maintained rapid growth.In the first eight months, the cumulative mobile Internet access traffic in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions reached 126.4 billion GB, 68.66 billion GB, 84.29 billion GB and 17.72 billion GB respectively, a year-on-year increase of 18.9%, 15.4%, 16.3% and 17.7%.