MIIT: 5G users increased by 100 million in H1

Published: Jul 22, 2025 17:55
[SMM Tin News]
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released data showing that in H1, the cumulative revenue from the telecommunications business reached 905.5 billion yuan, up 1% YoY. The total volume of telecommunications business, calculated at constant prices from the previous year, increased by 9.3% YoY. By the end of June, the total number of mobile phone users across the three basic telecommunications enterprises and China Broadcasting Network amounted to 1.81 billion, a net increase of 19.93 million users from the end of the previous year. Among them, the number of 5G mobile phone users reached 1.118 billion, a net increase of 104 million users from the end of the previous year, accounting for 61.8% of all mobile phone users. By the end of June, the total number of 5G base stations reached 4.549 million, a net increase of 298,000 from the end of the previous year, accounting for 35.7% of the total number of mobile base stations, with the proportion increasing by 1.3 percentage points compared to Q1.

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