According to the size of telecommunications, there are only two countries in the world, one is China and the other is foreign. Thanks to the huge investment of the three major operators in recent years, coupled with the huge breakthroughs made by Huawei and ZTE in 5G technology, my country has become the most developed country in the field of "5G new infrastructure" in the world. Public data shows that the number of 5G base stations in my country accounts for about 70% of the global total, and it is also the country with the largest number of 5G users in the world.

It is worth noting that although my country is the country with the largest number of 5G users, some data are a bit outrageous after seeing it!

5G user data released

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "Economic Operation of the Communications Industry from January to April 2022". The report mentioned that domestic 5G users reached 413 million, and the net increase in the past four months was 57.71 million. Surprisingly, the three major operators, China Mobile, China Unicom, and Telecom, also announced their own 5G package users, with a cumulative total of 870 million.

Careful netizens may have discovered such a problem. The number of 5G package users of the three major operators exceeds the number of 5G users calculated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. This strange data also means that many 5G package users are not real 5G users, why do they appear? What about this situation? In fact, this has a lot to do with the package planning and "routines" of the three major operators.

Package planning and "routines" of the three major operators

First, there is less choice. In fact, the three major operators no longer support 2G/3G networks, and many mobile phones are also required to no longer support connections to 2G and 3G data cellular networks when accessing the network. Not only that, the three major operators have also stopped supporting 4G networks, and in many areas, many business halls have also cancelled cost-effective 4G packages and launched more favorable 5G packages, many consumers have no choice. , you can only choose cost-effective 5G packages. In order to solve the problem of parents or student parties accessing the Internet on their mobile phones, it is often necessary to apply for a "supplementary card", which greatly increases the number of users of 5G packages.

Secondly, 4G packages and 5G terminals. For many users, they may be able to afford 5G mobile phones, but it is difficult to accept the price of hundreds of yuan per month for 5G packages, but each operator has assessment tasks, so we can often hear from customer service that free 5G traffic services are provided As long as the users who have used these 5G traffic services will also be counted as 5G package users. When the 4G network construction was suspended and the network speed began to decline, this 5G traffic service can indeed improve the user's network experience, but it is not a real 5G user.

In addition, in order to increase the penetration rate of 5G packages, operators have launched a series of "fang (tao) cases (lu)" for users. For example, the business hall "paints big cakes" for some elderly groups. 3G can only see pictures, and 4G can only see pictures. If you can watch aunt dance square dance, 5G can dance square dance with aunt. In order to cope with the task, some operators have forcibly opened 5G packages to users without the consent of users or through misleading methods. We can see many such complaints on the black cat complaint platform. If the 5G network experience is excellent, consumers may be willing to spend more money, but in many cases, although we seem to be connected to the 5G network, the measured network may only have a bandwidth of tens of megabytes, which does not meet the real 5G standard at all.

Regarding the forced promotion of 5G packages and the exaggeration of 5G packages and other behaviors that are "opposite" to the interests of the masses, whether it is the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology or the People's Daily, they have repeatedly exposed and called for such chaos to be rectified. 5G technology itself is to serve the masses and make our lives more convenient. Therefore, the number of 5G package users should not be the data for the three major operators to compete with each other. To improve the user's network experience and improve the transparency of 5G packages as much as possible, the number of package users will naturally increase.

For consumers, the 5G package should also be based on their own conditions, such as querying the coverage of the local network through the operator's exclusive APP, and understanding the quality of the 5G network in the community through the owner group, and then determine whether to upgrade.

However, with the continuous increase of 5G package discounts and the continuous improvement of 5G network and ecology, the 5G network experience will become better and better, and upgrading 5G is also the general trend! Don't know if you are 5G?