On October 25, the 2022 Global Mobile Broadband Forum was officially held. Huawei's rotating chairman Hu Houkun said at the meeting: As of October 2022, the global 5G users have reached 700 million.

On October 25, the 2022 Global Mobile Broadband Forum was officially held. Huawei Round Chairman Hu Houkun said at the meeting: As of October 2022, the global 5G users have reached 700 million. However, a few days ago, the three major domestic operators released data, and the total number of domestic 5G package users has exceeded 1 billion.

.7 billion and 1 billion are very different, and one is to count global user data and the other is domestic data. Why does such a difference occur? Which one is the real number of 5G users? Why does

have such a difference?

First of all, let’s take a look at what Huawei says.

Huawei's rotating chairman Hu Houkun described it as follows: "As of October 2022, more than 230 operators around the world have launched 5G commercial services, deploying more than 3 million 5G sites, and 700 million 5G users."

The focus of this statement is "5G commercial services", which means that Huawei counts users who are already using 5G services (those who have joined the network and used them), and the world has reached 700 million.

Secondly, look at the statements of the three major operators

Recently, the three major operators released the data for the third quarter. According to their data, as of September 30, the number of users of 5G packages in China has exceeded 1 billion.

Among them, the number of users of China Mobile's 5G package is about 557 million, and the number of users of 5G network (mobile customers who have used 5G networks that month and are online at the end of the month) has reached 292 million; China Telecom's 5G package is about 251 million; China Unicom's 5G package has reached 200 million.

However, the focus here is "number of users of 5G package", in other words, 1 billion mobile phones have applied for 5G packages. However, as for whether these people have 5G networks or even whether they have switched to 5G mobile phones, they are not ruled out.

Therefore, it can be summarized that the number of 5G users counted by Huawei and the three major operators is essentially different, and of course there will be differences. Which one is the real number of 5G users?

From the perspective of data statistics alone, the data counted by both are correct and belong to 5G "users". However, the statistics methods of the two are different, so the presented data values ​​are different.

first check the statistics of the three major operators. It should calculate the mobile phone numbers added to their respective packages. As for whether one user occupies multiple numbers and whether they are using 5G, they don’t care.

However, the proportion of this data is very real. The total number of mobile customers, Mobile, , Telecom, , and China Unicom, is 974 million, 390 million, and 842 million, respectively, with a total of 2.206 billion, and the total number of 5G package users is about 1.08 billion, accounting for about 45.7%.

is simply calculated according to statistics, and a 45.7% ratio represents that 2 people may not meet 1 person using 5G. Moreover, some people apply for several 5G package numbers for broadband delivery, while some people apply for 5G packages but still have 4G mobile phones. If these are not enabled and use 5G networks, if you rule out, the actual number of 5G users will be reduced. After several conversions, the actual number of 5G users of the three major operators is estimated to be within 500 million.

Look at the number of global 5G users counted by Huawei. It is very likely that the users who have already used 5G services, and it is very likely that they are calculated based on the number of people, not the number of numbers. In fact, it is very simple to do this. Now most of the Internet access needs to be made in real-name format, which is easy to count.

According to Huawei's statistics, the world's 700 million can be calculated as more than 400 million (basically consistent with the three major operators), but foreign countries account for 200 to 300 million. Because, as of October 2022, there were more than 23 million 5G base stations in the world, while there were nearly 2 million in China, accounting for nearly two-thirds, and commercialization was the earliest and fastest.

From this perspective, the statistics of both companies are actually accurate, but Huawei's statistics are more accurate and clear, and the data given by the three major operators are just more general.

Conclusion

In fact, the word "number of users of 5G package" is indeed not accurate enough now.If was used before, it was created to inspire the industry's confidence in 5G, then, now 5G is leaping from the commercialization period of scale to the rapid development period, is it time to change the expression?

counts simple and clear data. In fact, it is not a difficult thing for operators. The difficulty lies in whether they are willing to do it.

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