China News Service, June 18, according to the WeChat public account of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau released the economic operation of the communications industry from January to May 2020.
The growth rate of telecommunications business revenue continued to increase slightly. From January to May, the total revenue of telecommunications business was 574.1 billion yuan, an increase of 2.8% year-on-year, and the growth rate increased by 2.5 percentage points year-on-year, an increase of 0.5 percentage points from the growth rate from January to April. The total amount of telecommunications business calculated at constant prices in the previous year was 584.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.1%, and the growth rate was 0.1 percentage points higher than that from January to April.
Cumulative growth rate of telecom business revenue from January to May 2019-2020
Revenue from fixed communications business grew steadily, and the decline in revenue from mobile communications business narrowed. From January to May, the three basic telecommunications companies achieved fixed business revenue of 196.5 billion yuan, an increase of 12.2% year-on-year, an increase of 1.9 and 0.2 percentage points from the same period last year and January-April, accounting for 34.2% of the telecommunications business revenue %; the revenue of mobile communication business was 377.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.5%, a decrease of 2.3 and 0.7 percentage points from the same period of the previous year and from January to April, accounting for 65.8% of the telecommunications business revenue.
Revenue from data and internet business has been rising steadily, supporting steady growth in revenue from telecommunications business. From January to May, the three basic telecommunications companies completed fixed and mobile data and Internet business revenues of 97.7 billion yuan and 265.2 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2% and 2.9% year-on-year, and the growth rate increased by 0.1 and 0.2 compared with January-April Percentage point, accounting for 17% and 46.2% of the telecommunications business revenue respectively, an increase of 1 and 0.2 percentage points year-on-year, driving telecommunications business revenue growth of 1.5 and 1.4 percentage points, becoming the main pillar of the stable growth of telecommunications business revenue.
Fixed value-added and other income maintained rapid growth, which was the first driving force for the growth of telecommunications business revenue. Three basic telecommunications companies actively develop new businesses such as IPTV, Internet data centers, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, etc. From January to May, they completed a fixed value-added business revenue of 73.2 billion yuan, an increase of 22.7% year-on-year, and the growth rate was higher than that of January-April An increase of 0.6 percentage points accounted for 12.7% of the telecommunications business revenue, driving telecom business revenue growth of 2.4 percentage points.
The number of mobile phone users has increased slightly, and the proportion of 4G users has increased. As of the end of May, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 1.592 billion, a year-on-year increase of 0.2%. Among them, the number of 4G users is 1.279 billion, accounting for 80.3% of the total number of mobile phone users, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the end of April.
Proportion of total 4G users at the end of May 2019-2020
The number of fixed broadband access users has grown steadily, and the proportion of 100M access users continues to increase. As of the end of May, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 462 million, a year-on-year increase of 7%, and a net increase of 12.53 million from the end of the previous year. Among them, there are 430 million fiber access (FTTH/O) users, accounting for 93.1% of the total fixed broadband Internet access users. Fixed Internet broadband access users with access rates of 100Mbps and above reached 397 million, accounting for 86.1% of the total number of users, accounting for an increase of 0.4 percentage points from the end of April; fixed Internet broadband access users with access rates of 1000Mbps and above reached 226 Ten thousand households, a net increase of 1.39 million households from the end of last year.
Proportion of fixed-line broadband access users with optical fiber access (FTTH/O) and 100Mbps and above access rates from 2019 to the end of May 2020
The scale of cellular Internet of Things users continues to expand rapidly, and the penetration rate of mobile Internet users to mobile phone users has gradually increased. As of the end of May, the three basic telecommunications companies had developed 1.097 billion end-users of cellular IoT, a year-on-year increase of 44%, a net increase of 68.86 million from the end of the previous year, of which the end-users applied in smart manufacturing, smart transportation, and smart public utilities all grew Up to about 30%. The total number of IPTV (Internet TV) users reached 302 million, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%. The number of mobile Internet users reached 1.317 billion, and the penetration rate for mobile phone users was 82.7%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points from the end of the previous year.
Mobile Internet users by the end of May 2019-2020
Mobile Internet traffic maintained rapid growth, and the DOU value exceeded 10GB/user in May. From January to May, the cumulative mobile Internet traffic reached 61.1 billion GB, an increase of 35.2% year-on-year; of which, the mobile Internet traffic reached 59 billion GB, an increase of 31.1% year-on-year, accounting for 96.6% of the total mobile Internet traffic. The average mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) per household reached 10.05GB/household in May, a year-on-year increase of 28.8%, which was higher than 1.46GB/household in December of the previous year.
Comparison of cumulative mobile Internet access traffic and year-on-year growth rate from January to May 2019-2020.webp
Monthly mobile Internet access traffic and average household traffic (DOU) in May 2019-2020
The decline in mobile phone call volume continued to narrow, and mobile SMS service volume continued to be out of sync. From January to May, the duration of outgoing mobile phone calls was 879.8 billion minutes, a decrease of 11.7% year-on-year, and the decrease was 2.2 percentage points narrower than that of January-April; the duration of fixed-line caller calls was 40.5 billion minutes, a decrease of 21.6%, a decrease This is 2.2 percentage points narrower than in January-April. From January to May, the national mobile SMS business volume increased by 27% year-on-year, and the growth rate fell by 3 percentage points from January to April. percentage point.
Growth rate of mobile phone users and call duration from 2019 to January-May 2020
Year-on-year growth of mobile SMS business volume and revenue from January to May 2019-2020
The growth rate of mobile Internet access traffic in the western region is leading. From January to May, mobile Internet access traffic in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions reached 25.7 billion, 13.4 billion, 18.5 billion and 3.5 billion GB respectively, up 30%, 37.2%, 42.9% and 29.6% year-on-year. Speed ahead of the country. Among them, there are 15 provinces in the country where the average monthly mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) is higher than the average level, and the DOU values in Tibet, Guizhou and Yunnan are the top three, reaching 16.1GB/household, 15.05GB/household and 14.66 GB/household; the difference between the highest and lowest DOU values of various provinces is 9.41GB/household, which is 3.75GB/household larger than the same period last year.
Proportion of Mobile Internet Household Traffic (DOU) by Province in May 2020