The number of domestic 4G users has reached 1.29 billion, with a penetration rate of 80.7%.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the "Economic Operation of the Communications Industry from January to August 2020". As of the end of August, the total number of mobile phone users of the three major operators reached 1.598 billion, a year-on-year increase of 0.2%. Among them, the number of 4G users was 1.29 billion, a year-on-year increase of 2.6%, a net increase of 8.092 million users compared with the end of last year, accounting for 80.7% of the total number of mobile phone users, an increase of 0.1% from January to July.

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

The decline in mobile phone call volume continues to narrow, and the volume of mobile text messaging business is out of sync

Development of mobile phones: From January to August, the outgoing call duration of mobile phones reached 1.47 trillion minutes, down 8.4% year on year, and the decline narrowed by 0.8% compared with January to July; the outgoing call duration of fixed-line phones reached 68 billion minutes, down 17% year on year, and the decline narrowed by 0.7% compared with January to July.

In terms of SMS business, from January to August, the national mobile SMS business volume increased by 19.6% year-on-year, a decrease of 1.6% from January to July; mobile SMS business revenue decreased by 1.5% year-on-year, a decrease of 2.8% from January to July.

Mobile Internet traffic maintained rapid growth, and DOU value continued to increase in August

From January to August, the cumulative mobile Internet traffic reached 103.9 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 33.7%. Among them, the traffic through mobile Internet reached 100.3 billion GB, accounting for 96.5% of the total mobile Internet traffic. In August, the average mobile Internet access traffic per household (DOU) reached 11.25GB/household, a year-on-year increase of 30.3%, and 2.66GB/household higher than December of the previous year.

In terms of regional development, the western region leads in mobile Internet access traffic growth. From January to August, mobile Internet access traffic in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions reached 43.6 billion, 22.8 billion, 31.7 billion and 5.8 billion GB, respectively, up 28.6%, 36%, 40.8% and 28.1% year-on-year, with the western region leading the country in growth. In August, the average mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) per household in Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Guizhou and Qinghai exceeded 15GB/household; the difference between the highest and lowest DOU values ​​in each province was 11.77GB/household, an increase of 5.46GB/household compared with the same period last year.