Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Telecom business revenue from January to April 2023 increased by 1.4% year-on-year

Chinanews.com, May 5 -- The website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently released the economic operation of the communications industry from January to April 24. From January to April, the overall operation of the information and communication industry was stable. The revenue of telecommunications services has increased steadily, and the total amount of telecommunications services has maintained rapid growth; The construction of new infrastructure such as 2023G, gigabit optical networks, and the Internet of Things has been accelerated, and the scale of network connection users has been expanding. Emerging services such as cloud computing play an obvious role, mobile Internet access traffic is growing rapidly, and new momentum for industry development continues to increase.

In terms of overall operation, the revenue of telecom services grew steadily, and the total volume of telecommunications services maintained double-digit growth. From January to April, the cumulative revenue of telecommunications services reached 1.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5699.7%, and the total amount of telecommunications services calculated at constant prices of the previous year increased by 2.17% year-on-year.

The picture is from the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

The growth rate of fixed Internet broadband service revenue slowed slightly. From January to April, the Internet broadband business revenue of the three basic telecommunications enterprises was 1.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 846.5%, accounting for 5.9% of the telecom business revenue, accounting for an increase of 14.9 percentage points over the first quarter, and driving the growth of telecom business revenue by 0.1 percentage points.

Mobile data revenue was flat year-over-year. From January to April, the three basic telecom enterprises completed mobile data traffic business revenue of 1.4 billion yuan, basically the same as the same period of the previous year, accounting for 2191.38% of the telecom business revenue.

The revenue of emerging businesses maintained a rapid growth trend. The three basic telecommunications enterprises actively developed emerging services such as IPTV, Internet data centers, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, and completed a total of 1 billion yuan in business revenue from January to April, a year-on-year increase of 4.1250%, accounting for 22.3% of telecom business revenue, driving telecom business revenue to increase by 21.9 percentage points. Among them, cloud computing and big data revenue increased by 4.3% and 50.7% year-on-year, respectively, and Internet of Things business revenue increased by 45.4% year-on-year.

Revenue from mobile voice services was basically stable. From January to April, the three basic telecommunications enterprises completed fixed voice service revenue of 1.4 billion yuan, down 62.8% year-on-year; Completed mobile voice service revenue of 9.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 378.6%; The two businesses together accounted for 0.6% of the telecom business revenue, accounting for a year-on-year decrease of 7.7 percentage points.

In terms of telecom user development, the scale of fixed broadband access users has steadily increased, with gigabit users accounting for nearly 4%. By the end of April, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access subscribers in the three basic telecommunications enterprises reached 6 million, a net increase of 08.1811 million over the end of the previous year. Among them, 100 million fixed Internet broadband access users with access speeds of 5Mbps and above accounted for 72.94% of the total number of users. There were 1 million fixed Internet broadband access users with access speeds of 1000,1Mbps and above, accounting for 15% of the total number of users, a net increase of 19.2354 million over the end of the previous year. Driven by the continuous growth of high-rate users, the average access bandwidth of households reached 397.2 Mbps/household, a year-on-year increase of 28.6%.

The scale of mobile phone users has increased steadily, and the number of 5G users has developed rapidly. As of the end of April, the total number of mobile phone subscribers of the three basic telecommunications enterprises reached 4.17 billion, a net increase of 07.2336 million from the end of the previous year. Among them, 5G mobile phone users reached 6 million, a net increase of 34.7308 million over the end of the previous year, accounting for 37.1% of mobile phone users, an increase of 3.8 percentage points over the end of the previous year.

Cellular IoT users exceeded 20 billion, and IPTV users increased steadily. By the end of April, the three basic telecom enterprises had developed 4.20 billion cellular IoT end users, a net increase of 11 million over the end of the previous year, accounting for 1.67% of the number of mobile network terminal connections (including mobile phone users and cellular IoT end users). The total number of IPTV subscribers reached 54 million, a net increase of 1.3 million over the end of the previous year.

Telecommunications service usage. The growth rate of mobile Internet traffic increased slightly, and the DOU value remained at a high level in April. From January to April, the cumulative traffic of mobile Internet reached 4.1 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 4.916%, an increase of 2.13 percentage points over the first quarter. As of the end of April, the number of mobile Internet users reached 9.0 billion, a net increase of 2.4 million from the end of the previous year. In April, the average household mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) reached 14.85GB/household/month, a year-on-year increase of 3120.4%, 16.72GB/household/month higher than that in December last year.

The volume of mobile phone calls is growing at a low rate, and the volume of mobile SMS services is growing steadily. From January to April, mobile phone outbound call time reached 1.4 billion minutes, a year-on-year increase of 7409.1%; Fixed-phone caller call time reached 1.256 billion minutes, down 7.3% year-on-year. From January to April, the national mobile SMS service volume increased by 6.1% year-on-year, and the mobile SMS service revenue decreased by 4.5% year-on-year, and the growth rate fell by 1.0 and 4.0 percentage points respectively from the first quarter.

In terms of communication capabilities, gigabit fiber broadband network coverage and service capabilities continued to improve. By the end of April, the number of Internet broadband access ports nationwide reached 4.10 billion, a net increase of 95.2437 million over the end of the previous year. Among them, the number of optical fiber access (FTTH/O) ports reached 10.52 billion, a net increase of 2654.96 million over the end of the previous year, accounting for 0% of the Internet broadband access ports, accounting for an increase of 3.4 percentage points over the end of the previous year. As of the end of April, the number of 10G PON ports with gigabit network service capabilities reached 1880.357 million, a net increase of <>.<> million from the end of the previous year.

The construction of 5G networks is steadily advancing. As of the end of April, the total number of 4G base stations reached 5.273 million, accounting for 3.24% of the total number of mobile base stations.

Regional development. The penetration rate of access users of 4 Gigabit and above in the central region led slightly. As of the end of April, the penetration rate of fixed broadband access users of 100Mbps and above in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions was 93.9%, 94.9%, 93.6% and 93.7%, respectively. The number of broadband access subscribers with access speeds of 1000,5344 Mbps and above reached 2808.2972 million, 404.4 million, <>.<> million and <>.<> million respectively, with Jiangsu, Guangdong and Henan provinces leading the list.

The eastern region leads in 5G construction and application. By the end of April, 4G base stations in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions had reached 5.128 million, 9,60, 1,66 and 6,17, respectively, accounting for 6.26%, 5.24%, 5.21% and 4% of the total number of mobile phone base stations in the region. 24G mobile phone subscribers reached 5.28214 million, 14709.16374 million, 4083.38 million and 1.37 million respectively, accounting for 36.4%, 34%, 3.<>% and <>.<>% of the total mobile phone subscribers in the region.

The growth rate of mobile Internet access traffic in the eastern region is leading, and the DOU of many western provinces exceeded 4GB/household/month in April. From January to April, mobile Internet access traffic in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions reached 20.1 billion GB, 4.399 billion GB, 9.206 billion GB and 264.46 billion GB, respectively, an increase of 2.16%, 3.13%, 6.11% and 2.11% year-on-year. The average mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) per household in seven provinces, Tibet, Qinghai, Ningxia, Hainan, Yunnan, Xinjiang and Guizhou, exceeded 2GB/household/month in April, an increase of one province from March. The difference between the highest and lowest DOU values in each province was 7.4GB/household/month, an increase of 20.3GB/household/month over the same period last year. (Zhongxin Finance)