China's Ministry of Industry and Informatics announced that in the first four months of the year, telecommunications sector revenues increased by 7,2 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, reaching 569 billion 900 million yuan.
According to the data, the number of mobile phone users of the three big telecom companies reached 1 billion 707 million by the end of April, and 37,1 percent of them, 634 million people, became 5G users.
On the other hand, the number of 5G base stations in China has exceeded 2 million 733 thousand, making up 24,5 percent of the total mobile base stations. The number of fixed broadband internet subscribers of the three big telecom companies increased by 18 million 110 thousand compared to the end of last year and reached 608 million.