The third quarter of 2021 has passed. How is the progress of 5G construction in my country?

On October 20, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "Economic Operation of the Communications Industry in the First Three Quarters of 2021".

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Data shows that in the first three quarters, the overall operation of my country's communications industry was good. Telecommunications business revenue grew steadily, and the total volume of telecommunications business grew rapidly. The construction and application of 5G networks achieved remarkable results, and the scale of users continued to expand.

Specifically, in the first three quarters of 2021, telecommunications business revenue grew steadily, reaching 1,108.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%, an increase of 5.2 percentage points over the same period last year. The total volume of telecommunications business calculated at the same price as last year was 1,239 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28%.

Data and Internet business revenue grew steadily. In the first three quarters, the three basic telecommunications companies completed fixed data and Internet business revenue of 192.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.2%, an increase of 3.7 percentage points over the same period last year, accounting for 17.4% of telecommunications business revenue, an increase of 0.5 percentage points over the same period last year, driving the growth of telecommunications business revenue by 1.9 percentage points. Mobile data and Internet business revenue was 487.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%, an increase of 1.7 percentage points over the same period last year, accounting for 44% of telecommunications business revenue, driving the growth of telecommunications business revenue by 1.8 percentage points.

Emerging business revenues grew faster. The three basic telecommunications companies actively developed emerging businesses such as IPTV, Internet data centers, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. In the first three quarters, they achieved a total emerging business revenue of 168.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.8%, an increase of 1.8 percentage points from the first half of the year, accounting for 15.2% of telecommunications business revenues, driving telecommunications business revenues to grow by 3.7 percentage points. Among them, cloud computing and big data revenues grew by 94.8% and 33.3% year-on-year, respectively.

The scale of mobile phone users has increased steadily, and the scale of 5G users has expanded rapidly. As of the end of September, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 1.64 billion, a net increase of 41.85 million over the end of last year. Among them, the number of 5G mobile phone terminal connections reached 445 million, a net increase of 247 million over the end of last year.

Mobile Internet traffic has increased significantly. In the first three quarters, the cumulative mobile Internet traffic reached 160.8 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 35.8%. Among them, the traffic through mobile Internet access reached 153.8 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 36.4%, accounting for 95.7% of the total mobile Internet traffic. In September, the average mobile Internet access traffic per household (DOU) reached 13.36GB/household/month, a year-on-year increase of 23%, and 1.44GB/household/month higher than the end of last year.

The growth rate of mobile phone call volume slowed down, while the decline of mobile SMS business volume continued to narrow. In the first three quarters, the outgoing call duration of mobile phones reached 1.7 trillion minutes, an increase of 1.6% year-on-year; the outgoing call duration of fixed-line phones reached 70.5 billion minutes, a decrease of 8.6% year-on-year. The national mobile SMS business volume decreased by 0.2% year-on-year, and the decline narrowed by 2 percentage points compared with the first half of the year; the mobile SMS business revenue increased by 11.9% year-on-year, and the volume-revenue gap showed a narrowing trend.

The construction of 5G network is accelerating. As of the end of September, the total number of mobile phone base stations reached 9.69 million, a year-on-year increase of 5.7%, and a net increase of 377,000 over the end of last year. Among them, the total number of 4G base stations was 5.86 million, accounting for 60.4%; the total number of 5G base stations was 1.159 million, accounting for 12% of the total number of mobile base stations.