The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that the overall running situation of the Communications industry in the first eleven months of this year is stable. The volume of telecommunications business has achieved steady growth, with the construction of Network Infrastructure Construction such as 5G, gigabit optical networks, and Internet of Things (IoT) making significant progress, continuously expanding the scale of connected users, and mobile internet access traffic growing rapidly.

During this period, telecommunications business revenue reached a total of 1.59 trillion yuan (RMB), an increase of 2.6% year-on-year. Calculated at constant prices from the previous year, the total telecommunications business volume grew by 10%.

The scale of mobile phone users has increased steadily, with the number of 5G users exceeding 1 billion. By the end of November, the total number of mobile phone users of the three major telecommunications companies and China Broadcasting Network reached 1.79 billion, a net increase of 46.82 million compared to the end of last year. Among them, the number of 5G mobile phone users reached 1.002 billion, a net increase of 0.18 billion compared to the end of last year, accounting for 56% of mobile phone users, an increase of 9.4 percentage points compared to the end of last year.

By the end of November, the total number of 5G base stations in the mainland reached 4.191 million, a net increase of 0.815 million compared to the end of last year, accounting for 33.2% of the total number of mobile base stations, an increase of 4.1 percentage points compared to the end of last year.