Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, August 20, according to the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, on the 20th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the economic performance of the communications industry from January to July 2020. As of the end of July, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 1.597 billion. A year-on-year increase of 0.4%. Among them, the number of 4G users was 1.288 billion, a year-on-year increase of 3.4%. It accounts for 80.6% of the total number of mobile phone users, an increase of 0.2% compared to the first half of the year.

  Source: Screenshot of the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

  According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the cumulative revenue from January to July was 905.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.8%. Among them, telecommunications business revenue was 802.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%.

Overall operation

  The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pointed out that the growth rate of telecom business revenue was stable. From January to July, the total revenue of telecommunications services reached 802.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.1% , and the growth rate dropped by 0.1 percentage point from the first half of the year. The total telecommunications business calculated at the constant price of the previous year was 841.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.3%, and the growth rate was the same as the first half of the year.

  The cumulative growth rate of telecom business revenue and total telecom business from January to July 2019-2020

  Revenue from fixed communications services grew rapidly, and the decline in revenue from mobile communications continued to narrow. From January to July, the three basic telecommunications companies achieved revenue of 272.9 billion yuan from fixed communications services, a year-on-year increase of 11.5%. The growth rate increased by 2 percentage points from the same period last year, but fell by 0.5 percentage points from the first half of the year. 34%; revenue from mobile communications services was 529.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 0.7%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 3.4 and 0.2 percentage points from the same period last year and the first half of the year, accounting for 66% of telecom business revenue.

  Data and Internet business revenues grew steadily, supporting steady growth in telecom business revenues. From January to July, the three basic telecommunications companies completed fixed and mobile data and Internet business revenues of 133.9 billion yuan and 369.4 billion yuan, an increase of 6.5% and 3.4% year-on-year, accounting for 16.7% and 46% of telecommunications business revenue, respectively , An increase of 0.5 and 0.3 percentage points year-on-year, driving the growth of telecom business revenue by 1.1 and 1.6 percentage points, and is the main pillar of the steady growth of telecom business revenue.

  The rapid growth of fixed value-added and other income is the first driving force for the growth of telecom business income. The three basic telecommunications companies are actively developing emerging services such as IPTV, Internet data centers, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. From January to July, they completed a total of 103.1 billion yuan in fixed value-added services, a year-on-year increase of 23.4%, accounting for the proportion of telecommunications business revenue It was 12.8%, driving a 2.5% increase in telecom business revenue. Among them, cloud computing and big data revenue accounted for 12.3% of fixed value-added business revenue, with growth rates of 70.4% and 47% respectively, the most prominent growth trend; data center business revenue increased by 26.1% year-on-year, accounting for 39.8% of fixed value-added business revenue.

  2019-2020 January-July 2020 telecommunications business revenue classification growth

Development of telecommunications users

  According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the scale of mobile phone users has remained stable, and the proportion of 4G users has continued to increase. As of the end of July, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 1.597 billion, a year-on-year increase of 0.4%. Among them, the number of 4G users was 1.288 billion, a year-on-year increase of 3.4% , accounting for 80.6% of the total number of mobile phone users, an increase of 0.2% compared to the first half of the year.

  Proportion of total 4G users at the end of July 2019-2020

  Fixed broadband access users are migrating to high rates, and the proportion of fiber access users has gradually increased. As of the end of July, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 468 million, a year-on-year increase of 6.5% and a net increase of 18.29 million from the end of the previous year. Among them, there are 437 million optical fiber access (FTTH/O) users, accounting for 93.4% of the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users. Fixed Internet broadband access users with an access rate of 100Mbps and above reached 409 million, accounting for 87.4% of the total number of users, an increase of 0.6% compared to the first half of the year; the promotion of gigabit broadband services was accelerated, and the access rate of 1000Mbps and above was fixed. The number of Internet broadband access users reached 3.07 million, a net increase of 2.2 million from the end of the previous year (870,000).

  IPTV users have grown rapidly, and the penetration rate of mobile Internet users to mobile phone users has increased steadily. As of the end of July, the three basic telecommunications companies had developed mobile Internet users to 1.32 billion, and their penetration rate of mobile phone users was 82.9%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points from the end of the previous year. There were 1.071 billion cellular Internet of Things terminal users, a year-on-year increase of 25.9% and a net increase of 43.68 million from the end of the previous year. Among them, terminal users used in smart manufacturing, smart transportation, and smart public utilities accounted for 20.5%, 18.9%, and 21.8%, respectively . The total number of IPTV (Internet TV) users reached 305 million, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%.

Telecom service usage

  The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pointed out that mobile Internet traffic maintained rapid growth, and the DOU value continued to increase in July. From January to July, the cumulative mobile Internet traffic reached 88.9 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 34.1%. Among them, mobile Internet traffic reached 85.9 billion GB, an increase of 30% year-on-year, accounting for 96.6% of the total mobile Internet traffic. In July, the average mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) per household reached 10.89GB/household, a year-on-year increase of 30.8%, which was 2.3GB/household higher than in December of the previous year.

  The decline in the volume of mobile phone calls continued to narrow, and the receipt of mobile SMS services was not synchronized. From January to July, outgoing mobile phone calls completed 1.27 trillion minutes, a year-on-year decrease of 9.2%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 1.1 percentage points from the first half of the year; fixed-line callers completed 59.2 billion minutes of call time, a decrease of 17.7% year-on-year. In the first half of the year, it narrowed by 1.2 percentage points. From January to July, the national mobile short message business volume increased by 21.2% year-on-year, and the growth rate fell 3.1 percentage points from the first half of the year; the mobile short message business revenue fell 4.3% year-on-year, and the rate of decline expanded 0.1 percentage point from the first half of the year.

Regional development

  According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the growth rate of mobile Internet access traffic in the western region is leading. From January to July, the mobile Internet access traffic in the eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions reached 37.4 billion, 19.5 billion, 27.1 billion, and 5 billion GB, respectively, representing a year-on-year increase of 29.2%, 36.3%, 41% and 28.2%. The western region increased Lead the country quickly. In 5 provinces including Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qinghai and Xinjiang in July, the average mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) per household exceeded 15GB/household, reaching 17.65GB/household, 16.14GB/household, 15.92GB/household, and 15.42GB/household. Households and 15.14GB/household; the difference between the highest and the lowest DOU value of each province is 10.48GB/household, which is an increase of 3.65GB/household over the same period last year.

  The penetration rate of fixed broadband access users of 100M and above in the Northeast is leading. As of the end of July, the fixed broadband access users of 100Mbps and above in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions reached 178.64 million, 99.91 million, 105.14 million and 25.14 million, respectively, accounting for 87.3 of the total fixed Internet broadband users in the region. %, 87.6%, 87% and 89.5%, and the proportion of Northeast China is leading the country. The difference between the highest proportion of fixed broadband access users above 100M and the lowest proportion in each province was 22.3 percentage points. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)