China News Service, Beijing, October 26 (Reporter Liu Yuying) The economic operation of the communications industry in the first three quarters of 2022 released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China on the 26th shows that emerging businesses in the communications industry have become a new growth engine, with more than The "superhuman" pace of mobile phone users continues to increase.

  The data shows that the pace of "Superman" continues to increase.

As of the end of September, the three basic telecommunications companies had developed 1.745 billion cellular IoT terminal users, a net increase of 350 million over the end of the previous year; the number of mobile phone users exceeded 65.86 million, accounting for the number of mobile network terminal connections (including mobile phone users and cellular The proportion of IoT end users) has reached 51%.

  Income from emerging businesses in the communications industry grew rapidly.

The three basic telecommunications companies are actively developing emerging businesses such as IPTV, Internet data centers, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. In the first three quarters, business revenue totaled 232.9 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 33.4%. It accounted for 19.5% of the total, driving the telecommunication business revenue to increase by 5.3 percentage points.

Among them, cloud computing and big data revenue increased by 127.6% and 62.6% year-on-year respectively, data center business revenue increased by 14.3% year-on-year, and IoT business revenue increased by 23.5% year-on-year.

  As of the end of September, the total number of 5G base stations reached 2.22 million, a net increase of 795,000 over the end of the previous year, accounting for 20.7% of the total number of mobile base stations; the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 1.682 billion, of which 5G mobile phone users reached 510 million households, accounting for more than 30%.

  In the first three quarters, China's telecom business revenue totaled 1,197.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.2%. The total telecom business volume calculated at constant prices in the previous year increased by 21.7% year-on-year, and the growth rate was the same as the previous month.

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