The official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the economic operation of the telecommunications industry for the first ten months of 2024 yesterday. In terms of the development of telecom users, gigabit users have accounted for more than 30%.
As of the end of October, the total number of fixed internet broadband access users of the three basic telecommunications companies reached 668 million, with a net increase of 32.04 million users compared to the end of the previous year. Among them, users with fixed internet broadband access speeds of 100Mbps and above reached 633 million, accounting for 94.8% of the total number of users; users with access speeds of 1000Mbps and above reached 203 million, with a net increase of 40.20 million compared to the end of the previous year, accounting for 30.4% of the total number of users, an increase of 4.7 percentage points from the end of the previous year.
Driven by the continuous growth of high-speed users, the average household access bandwidth reached 506.9Mbps per household, a year-on-year increase of 15.1%.
By region, as of the end of October, the penetration rates of fixed broadband access users with speeds of 1000Mbps and above in the eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions were 30.4%, 30.2%, 32.6%, and 22.2%, respectively. The penetration rates of broadband access users with speeds of 1000Mbps and above in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Yangtze River Delta regions were 31.8% and 29.6%, respectively, an increase of 0.6 and 0.4 percentage points from the first three quarters.
The construction of gigabit fiber optic broadband networks is steadily advancing. By the end of October, the number of internet broadband access ports nationwide reached 1.2 billion, with a net increase of 63.7 million compared to the end of the previous year. Among them, fiber optic access (FTTH/O) ports reached 1.16 billion, with a net increase of 61.41 million from the end of the previous year, accounting for 96.4% of internet broadband access ports. As of the end of October, the number of 10G PON ports capable of providing gigabit network services reached 27.61 million, with a net increase of 4.586 million compared to the end of the previous year.