China News Service, August 16 (Reporter Wu Tao) On the 16th, with the release of China Telecom's financial report for the first half of the year, the performance of the three major operators in the first half of the year was released.

According to statistics, in the first half of the year, the total revenue of the three major operators was 913.414 billion yuan, and the net profit totaled 99.523 billion yuan.

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Both revenue and net profit are growing positively, with an average daily net profit of about 549 million yuan

  According to the financial report, China Mobile’s revenue in the first half of the year was 496.934 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12%; its net profit was 70.275 billion yuan, an increase of 18.9% year-on-year.

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  In the first half of the year, China Unicom's revenue was 176.261 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%; its net profit reached 10.957 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.5%.

  In the first half of the year, China Telecom's revenue was 240.219 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.4%; its net profit was 18.291 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%.

  According to statistics, in the first half of the year, the three major operators had a total revenue of 9134.14 yuan and a total net profit of 99.523 billion yuan. On average, the average daily net profit was about 549 million yuan.

  According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in the first half of the year, telecommunications business revenue grew steadily, and the total telecommunications business maintained double-digit growth.

In the first half of the year, the total revenue of telecom business reached 815.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%.

The total amount of telecommunications business calculated at constant prices in the previous year increased by 22.7% year-on-year.

The number of 5G users is still growing rapidly, and the penetration rate of 5G packages has increased

  According to the financial report, as of the end of June, the number of China Mobile users reached 970 million, of which 511 million were 5G package customers, a net increase of 124 million.

  In the first half of the year, the number of users of China Unicom reached 320 million, the number of users of 5G packages reached 184 million, and the penetration rate of 5G packages reached 58%.

  China Telecom said that as of the end of June, its mobile users reached 384 million, a net increase of 11.79 million, and 5G package users reached 232 million, with a penetration rate of 60.3%.

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  Through the financial report, a reporter from Zhongxin Finance and Economics observed and found that many users have applied for 5G packages but did not use 5G networks.

For example, China Mobile has 511 million 5G package customers, but 263 million 5G network users.

  According to the latest data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the number of 5G users is expanding rapidly.

As of the end of June, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 1.67 billion, a net increase of 25.52 million over the end of the previous year.

  "Among them, 5G mobile phone users reached 455 million, a net increase of 100.55 million compared with the end of the previous year, accounting for 27.3% of mobile phone users, an increase of 5.7 percentage points compared with the end of the previous year." The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said.

700MHz 5G base station has seen scale, your 5G signal will be better

  In the past six months, the construction of 5G base stations is in rapid progress.

According to a China Mobile report, in the first half of 2022, 5G-related investments totaled RMB 58.7 billion, and a total of one million 5G base stations were opened, including 300,000 700MHz 5G base stations, serving 263 million 5G network customers, and over 4,400 5G private network projects. indivual.

  It is worth noting that the 700MHz 5G base station has seen scale, and some analysts have pointed out that this makes the 5G network coverage larger.

  China Telecom said that the company and China Unicom continued to deepen network co-construction and sharing. In the first half of the year, 180,000 5G base stations were jointly built and shared, 870,000 5G base stations were in use, and 210,000 new shared 4G base stations were added. Zhangwang”, the two parties have saved a total of 240 billion yuan in investment.

  The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that 5G construction is accelerating.

As of the end of June, the total number of mobile communication base stations in my country reached 10.35 million, a net increase of 387,000 over the end of the previous year.

Among them, the total number of 5G base stations reached 1.854 million, accounting for 17.9% of the total number of mobile base stations, an increase of 3.6 percentage points compared with the end of the previous year, of which 429,000 5G base stations were newly built from January to June.

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