Hundreds of millions of "5G users" did not touch the Internet after setting up a package

The user penetration rates of China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom's 5G package are 31.2%, 29.7% and 20% respectively. Due to the huge user base, China Mobile still needs to catch up with the penetration rate. In terms of infrastructure, the total number of 5G base stations is 819,000, of which 48,000 are newly built in January to March.

From the perspective of user data, the number of 5G package users of the three major operators are 189 million, 111 million, and 91.85 million, respectively, and the number of 5G package users exceeds 390 million. At the same time, with the increase of 5G package users, the monthly monthly rental fee of users has increased significantly. China Mobile ARPU (average income per user) reached (per capita monthly consumption) 47.4 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.9%, and China Telecom’s ARPU was 45.6 yuan. China Unicom's ARPU is 44.6 yuan.

However, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed that as of the end of March, the number of 5G mobile phone terminal users connected by the three major operators reached 285 million, a net increase of 86.84 million from the end of the previous year, accounting for 17.8% of mobile phone users.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology gave 285 million 5G users, and the operator said there were 390 million 5G users. What is the difference between 100 million users? It turned out that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology counts the number of users connected to the 5G network, while the operator statistics Are 5G plan users. However, more than 100 million 5G package users have changed their 5G packages with 4G mobile phones, so they are not actually 5G touch-net users.

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