The data shows that in the first half of 2018, the revenue of telecom business accumulated 672 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%, and the growth rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points from January to May. The total volume of telecom services was 2.5757 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 132.7%. In July, the growth rate of fixed telecommunications services reached 195.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10%; the revenue of mobile communications services reached 476.2 billion yuan, up 1.8% year-on-year, accounting for telecommunications. 70.9% of business income.
The unlimited package service stimulates mobile phone users to continue to grow rapidly. As of the end of June, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 1.51 billion, a year-on-year increase of 10.6%, and a net increase of 92.29 million in the first half of the year. Among them, mobile broadband users (ie 3G and 4G users) The total number reached 1.26 billion, accounting for 83.2% of mobile phone users; the total number of 4G users reached 1.11 billion, accounting for 73.5% of mobile phone users.
In terms of growth rate of the three major operators, in the first half of 2018, China Mobile added 18.608 million mobile subscribers, China Telecom increased 31.16 million, and China Unicom increased 17.855 million. Among them, 4G subscribers, China Mobile increased 2732.2 in the first half of 2018. Ten thousand households, China Telecom increased by 35.27 million, China Unicom increased by 28.233 million. According to the analysis, China Unicom's 4G users are only slightly higher than China Mobile. Compared with the other two, the 4G user gap has not been further narrowed.