Recently, the Operations Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a report on the economic performance of the telecommunications industry for the first two months of 2025.
According to the data, by the end of February, the total number of fixed internet broadband subscribers from the three major telecom operators in China reached 675 million, marking a net increase of 4.936 million since the end of the previous year. Notably, users with fixed internet broadband access speeds of 100Mbps and above totaled 641 million, accounting for 95% of the overall user base. Among them, users with access speeds of 1000Mbps and above reached 214 million, representing a net increase of 6.741 million since the end of the previous year, accounting for 31.7% of the total user base and an increase of 0.8 percentage points from the previous year.
Regionally, the penetration rates of 1000Mbps and above fixed broadband access users in the eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions of China were 32.1%, 31.8%, 32.5%, and 24.4%, respectively. Compared to the end of the previous year, these rates increased by 0.9, 0.6, 0.8, and 0.8 percentage points, respectively.
On the network front, by the end of February, the total number of internet broadband access ports nationwide reached 1.214 billion, an increase of 12.24 million from the end of the previous year. Among these, fiber optic access (FTTH/O) ports accounted for 1.171 billion, up by 11.27 million, constituting 96.5% of internet broadband access ports. Additionally, the number of 10G PON ports capable of providing gigabit network services reached 28.92 million, a net increase of 718,000 from the end of the previous year.
China's gigabit broadband user base has been rapidly expanding in recent years. In 2021, the country had 34.59 million gigabit broadband users, which increased by 57.16 million in 2022, 71.53 million in 2023, and 43.55 million in 2024.