On 20 september, the new zealand office held a launch on developments in industry and informatization in the first quarter of 2021. During the meeting, journalists asked questions about the decrease in the number of fixed and mobile telephone subscribers compared to hundreds of thousands and millions at the end of last year, among the main indicators of the communications industry published by the ministry of industry and communications for january-february this year. What causes the negative growth in the number of telephone users? What are the future trends
In this regard, zhao zhiguo noted that the total number of mobile phone subscribers has remained generally stable from the data available, and that by the end of february this year the total number of mobile phone subscribers in the country was approximately 1,592 million, a slight decrease from the previous october's historical peak of 1,601 million, for several reasons:
One is that our mobile phone penetration has reached a high level, with little or limited incremental space. By 2020, our mobile phone subscription rate reached 113. 9 per 100, well above the global average of 102. 94 per 100, and now exceeds 100 per 100 in 27 provinces and cities。
Secondly, with the nationwide implementation of the speed deduction and the development of 5g, our network traffic unit prices have fallen significantly and 5g sets of meals have been rapidly expanded. There are now more than 350 million users of the 5g set, and the unit price of the 5g set has now fallen to 4. 4 per g. Large traffic can meet many people's internet needs and, to a certain extent, transform many of the two-card users who used the drop-in card into single-card users。
Thirdly, there has been a smooth rollover of the portable network, which has now reached 26 million users, reducing the double-card demand of many users across operators and cancelling the second slot。
Zhao zhigu noted that, although there have been small changes in users in the recent past, “we judge that the number of mobile phone users will remain relatively stable in the future as a whole, with slight increases or decreases being a more normal trend”
