Sina Technology News News on the afternoon of November 13th, the 2020 State Council government work report proposed that it is necessary to promote the reduction of enterprise production and operation costs and achieve a 15% reduction in average broadband and dedicated line tariffs. China Unicom said today that as of the end of October, the annual decline in corporate broadband reached 20.9%, and the annual decline in Internet dedicated lines reached 16.7%, both of which have completed their annual decline targets. In addition, China Unicom also announced progress in 5G network construction, lower network tariffs, and user services.
In terms of mobile broadband networks, China Unicom continues to improve the speed and coverage of 4G networks, actively promotes the expansion and upgrade of mobile networks, and unswervingly implements 5G network co-construction and sharing in accordance with the new development concept. The average user perception rate has increased by more than 50% compared to the end of 19 . As of the end of October, China Unicom had accumulated 330,000 5G base stations. By the end of this year, China Unicom's 5G base station scale is expected to exceed 380,000, covering all prefecture-level cities and urban areas across the country. 5G co-construction and sharing has brought about doubled coverage, doubled speed, and doubled experience. The average download speed reaches 900Mbps, and the peak download speed of some 200MHz bandwidth hotspots reaches 1.7Gbps. At the same time, China Unicom is focusing on the coverage of distance education network and improving telemedicine capabilities, so as to speed up the network and benefit ordinary people.
Based on Gigabit 5G, Gigabit broadband and Gigabit Wi-Fi, China Unicom will strive to create a "three gigabit" Internet environment, continue to increase network speeds, and realize Unicom Gigabit 5G for outbound and Unicom Gigabit broadband for inbound. With gigabit Wi-Fi, Changshuang’s gigabit network covers all scenarios at home, work, and travel, and fully meets consumers' various network access and application needs.
revenue is growing. Despite the impact of the epidemic, the three major operators have all increased their revenue in the first three quarters of this year. China Mobile ranked first with 574.4 billion yuan, followed by China Telecom with 292.6 billion yuan and China Unicom with 225.4 billion yuan. In terms of growth rate, China Unicom and China Telecom are higher than China Mobile, 3.8% and 3.5% respectively. , Mobile grew by 1.4% year-on-year.
China Unicom stated in its financial report that in the first three quarters of 2020, industrial Internet business revenue was RMB 32.656 billion, an increase of 34.4% over the same period last year.
China Telecom pointed out that the company accelerated the integration and innovation of emerging technologies and continued to expand the industrial digitalization market space. In the first three quarters of this year, the industrial digitalization revenue was approximately 63.436 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in the first three quarters of this year, my country’s cellular Internet of Things terminal users reached 1.073 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18.2%, and a net increase of 44.92 million from the end of the previous year. Among them were terminal users for smart manufacturing, smart transportation, and smart public utilities. The proportions reached 19.6%, 19%, and 22.7% respectively. The total number of IPTV (Internet TV) users reached 310 million, a year-on-year increase of 6%, and a net increase of 15.8 million from the end of the previous year. In terms of profitability, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom have net profits of 81.6 billion yuan, 18.7 billion yuan and 4.8 billion yuan respectively. Except for China Mobile, both China Unicom and China Telecom have positive growth in profits. In the first three quarters of this year, China Mobile's net profit decreased by 0.3% compared with last year, but the company's profit continued to improve in the third quarter, achieving positive growth.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently announced the economic operation of the telecommunications industry in the first three quarters of 2020. In the first three quarters of 2020, the total revenue of telecommunications business was 1.022.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.2%, and the growth rate was the same as that in the first half of the year; calculated at the constant price of the previous year The total volume of telecommunications business was 10968 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.6% year-on-year.
In September of this year, revenue from mobile communications services achieved a rare positive growth. In the first eight months of this year, the revenue of mobile communications business fell by 0.8% year-on-year; in the first September of this year, the revenue fell by 0.6% year-on-year, and the rate of decline narrowed.
69 million 5G base stations
On October 22, at the press conference on the development of the industrial communications industry in the first three quarters last year, Wen Ku, spokesperson for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Director of the Information and Communications Development Department, said that my country’s 5G development has achieved positive results. As a result, the cumulative number of base stations opened has reached 690,000, basically achieving prefecture-level 5G coverage.
Wenku said, vigorously promote the application and research and development of 5G, while speeding up the construction of 5G. He pointed out that up to now, my country's 5G development has achieved positive results as a whole. Terminal, 1-9In December, the shipment of 5G mobile phones exceeded 100 million, and 160 million terminals were connected to the 5G network. In terms of the number of 5G users, in addition to China Unicom, China Mobile and China Telecom both disclosed 5G package user data, which were 114 million and 64.8 million, respectively. Telecommunications analyst Fu Liang said that structural changes such as 3G/4G users upgrading to 5G and wired broadband speeds will become an important direction for the development of operators. With the release of high-end mobile phones such as iPhone12 and Huawei mate40 this week, and more mid-to-low-end 5G mobile phones are launched, the proportion of 5G mobile phones will further increase.
Wenku said that in the next three years, my country’s 5G will continue to rise, and we still need to maintain strategic determination, respect the laws of technological evolution, network construction, and market development, solidly promote 5G network construction, and comprehensively accelerate the pace of innovation in 5G applications. Efforts to form a 5G benign development model of “promoting usage by construction and construction by usage”.
Regarding the problem that some experts believe that 5G investment is excessively advanced, Wenku believes that moderately advanced construction is a common feature of public infrastructure. "Regardless of the construction of any network, it has been this characteristic from the time when 4G or even 3G was built. Maintaining a moderately advanced construction is in line with the characteristics of the development of this industry." In the first three quarters of this year, operators have completed the whole year ahead of schedule. 5G construction progress. As for whether to build more 5G base stations in the last three months, Wenku said that operators are evaluating, "They are watching, and we also hope that everyone can grasp the development speed of construction in a timely and reliable manner."
China Mobile in the financial report It pointed out that facing the challenges of increasing 5G operation and maintenance costs and investment in transformation, the company will insist on "guarantee, pressure, and control" to allocate resources, further promote cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, maintain good profitability, and achieve annual shareholders Attributable profits remained stable.
