Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: 14GB per capita data traffic hits a new high, Shanghai ranks last

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On November 22, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "Economic Operation of the Communications Industry from January to October 2021", stating that the average mobile Internet access traffic per household (DOU) in October reached 14.32GB/household/month, a year-on-year increase of 25%, and 2.4GB/household/month higher than the end of last year.

Mobile Internet traffic is growing rapidly. Data shows that from January to October, the cumulative mobile Internet traffic reached 181 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 35.3%. Among them, the traffic through mobile Internet access reached 173.2 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 36.4%, accounting for 95.7% of the total mobile Internet traffic.

By region, mobile Internet access traffic in the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions reached 77.3 billion GB, 40.3 billion GB, 53.5 billion GB and 9.87 billion GB, respectively, up 37.2%, 38.5%, 31.1% and 31.5% year-on-year. The growth rate in the central region led the country.

It is worth mentioning that the average mobile Internet access traffic (DOU) per household in Tibet, Qinghai, Yunnan and Xinjiang in October exceeded 19GB/household/month, with Tibet reaching as high as 23.4GB/household/month, while Heilongjiang, Shanghai and Hebei were at the bottom, with the lowest being only 9.3GB/household/month.

This should be inversely proportional to the level of broadband development. In the second quarter of 2021, Shanghai ranked first in the country in terms of fixed broadband speed, and the proportion of broadband users with 1000Mbps and above was significantly higher than the national average, and 2000M home broadband was the first to be launched.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also released data on calls and text messages. Specifically:

The growth rate of mobile phone call volume slowed down. From January to October, the outgoing call duration of mobile phones reached 1.89 trillion minutes, a year-on-year increase of 1.3%, and the growth rate dropped by 0.3 percentage points from January to September; the outgoing call duration of fixed-line phones reached 77.5 billion minutes, a year-on-year decrease of 9%.

The volume of mobile SMS business was the same as last year. From January to October, the national mobile SMS business volume was the same as the same period last year; the revenue from mobile SMS business increased by 10.4% year-on-year.