Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to news from CTOnews.com on April 24, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the economic performance of the communications industry in the first quarter of 2023. Telecom business revenue totaled 425.2 billion yuan, an increase of 7.7 percent over the same period last year. The total volume of telecommunications services calculated at the same price last year increased by 18% over the same period last year, an increase of 0.3 percentage points over January-February.

The cumulative growth rate of telecom business revenue and total telecom business in the first quarter, the Internet broadband business revenue of the three basic telecom enterprises was 62.75 billion yuan, an increase of 6.8% over the same period last year, accounting for 14.8% of the telecom business revenue, driving the growth of telecom business revenue by 1 percentage point. The three basic telecommunications enterprises earned 161.8 billion yuan from mobile data traffic business, which was basically the same as the same period last year, accounting for 38.1% of the telecom business revenue.

The three basic telecommunications companies actively developed emerging businesses such as IPTV, Internet data center, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of things. In the first quarter, their business income totaled 97.25 billion yuan, an increase of 24.5% over the same period last year, accounting for 22.9% of the telecommunications business revenue, driving the growth of telecommunications business revenue by 4.8%. Among them, the revenue of cloud computing and big data increased by 58% and 44.6% respectively compared with the same period last year, and the business revenue of the Internet of things increased by 30%.

Revenue growth of emerging business income of the three basic telecommunications enterprises completed fixed voice business totaled 4.73 billion yuan, down 8.9% from the same period last year; revenue from mobile voice business totaled 28.06 billion yuan, up 1.9% from the same period last year; and the two businesses together accounted for 7.7% of telecom business revenue, accounting for 0.5 percentage points lower than the same period last year.

CTOnews.com obtained from the data that by the end of March, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users of the three basic telecommunications enterprises reached 604 million, a net increase of 14.57 million over the end of last year, and the total number of mobile phone users reached 1.705 billion, a net increase of 21.61 million over the end of last year. Of these, 5G mobile phone users reached 620 million, a net increase of 59.27 million over the end of last year, accounting for 36.4 percent of mobile phone users and an increase of 3.1 percentage points over the end of last year.

5G mobile phone users by the end of March, the three basic telecommunications enterprises had developed 1.984 billion cellular IoT end users, a net increase of 139 million over the end of last year, accounting for 53.8 per cent of the number of mobile network terminal connections (including mobile phone users and cellular IoT end users). The total number of IPTV (Internet TV) users reached 387 million, a net increase of 6.652 million over the end of last year.

By the end of March, the total number of mobile phone base stations in China had reached 11.14 million, a net increase of 310000 over the end of last year. Among them, the total number of 5G base stations reached 2.646 million, accounting for 23.7% of the total number of mobile base stations.

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