C114 News on May 21 (Nanshan) The latest Economic Operation of the Communication Industry from January to April 2024 released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that in the first four months, China's new infrastructure construction such as 5G and gigabit optical networks continued to advance, the scale of network connection users continued to expand, and the mobile Internet access traffic grew rapidly.
By the end of April, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications enterprises and China Radio and Television had reached 1.759 billion, a net increase of 15.28 million over the end of the previous year. Among them, the number of 5G mobile phone users reached 889 million, a net increase of 67.35 million over the end of last year, accounting for 50.6% of mobile phone users, 4 percentage points higher than the end of last year.
In addition, according to the data released by three basic telecom enterprises yesterday, China's 5G package users exceeded the 1.4 billion mark, reaching 1.402 billion.
Driven by the steady growth of 5G users, mobile Internet traffic is also rising. From January to January, the accumulated mobile Internet traffic reached 103.7 billion GB, up 13.2% year on year. By the end of April, the number of mobile Internet users had reached 1.54 billion, a net increase of 12.77 million over the end of the previous year. In April, the average household mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) reached 17.82GB/household/month, with a year-on-year growth of 6.6%.
In terms of infrastructure, by the end of April, the total number of 5G base stations had reached 3.748 million, a net increase of 372000 over the end of the previous year, accounting for 31.7% of the total number of mobile base stations, and 1.1 percentage points higher than that of the first quarter.
