MIIT released Telecom Service Quality Report of China in 2Q17 on July 31.

By the end of the second quarter, phone users reached 1.565 billion in China with 1.365 billion mobile phone users included.

The promotion of "Broadband China" has been accelerating and deepening the broadband speed improvement and tariff cut.

Fixed broadband users came to 322 million. Fiber access (FTTH/O) users reached 261 million, accounting for 80.9 percent of the former while mobile broadband users reached 1.04 billion, among which 888 million were 4G users with 118 million additions.

During the period, the telecommunications network and Internet ran smoothly, making communication service stable on the whole.

Internet, additionally, has integrated with other fields in Q2. MIIT released a document to accelerate the NB-IoT network deployments and expand the application of that.

The mobile Internet access traffic data increased 136.8 percent to 8.89 billion GB; fixed broadband access traffic data kept a stable growth hitting 84.43 billion GB.

By the end of March, smartphone shipments reduced 3.9 percent to 226 million compared with the same period of last year; IoT device users jumped 120 percent to 181 million year over year.