China News Network, March 25th. In response to the recent decline in mobile phone users in China or related to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Han Xia, director of the Information and Communications Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said on the 25th that operators recently saw their mobile phones when they released their results. There has been a decrease in the number of users. After understanding with the three operators, there may be two reasons for the preliminary analysis.
First, affected by epidemic factors, in February, there were many physical channels for telecommunication companies that could not operate normally. Although online services were opened, many users were still accustomed to go to the physical business hall for some new account opening and other services, so new development The speed of users has slowed down. There is also the fact that some of the existing users cannot resume work and resume production, and the demand for social and economic activities has decreased. Some temporary cards have been cancelled and the temporary numbers have been cancelled.
Secondly, with the nationwide implementation of number portability and speeding up and reducing fees, some users who originally had dual cards no longer need separate data cards, and these data card users have cancelled their numbers.
Han Xia also pointed out that according to the statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to February this year, the cumulative traffic of mobile Internet across the country reached 23.5 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 44.2%. In February, the average monthly mobile Internet access traffic reached 8.88 GB, a year-on-year increase. An increase of 45.5%, also reached its highest point since nearly December.
"We believe that with the gradual recovery of economic and social activities, the number of mobile communication users may increase in the future. According to the latest data from China Telecom, from March 1 to March 22, China Telecom ’s mobile subscribers each added 245,000 daily. This is an increase of 114% from the average daily new users in February. "Han Xia said.