China's mobile internet subscriptions surpass 1.6 billion - Chinese media

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's communications industry operated stably from January to August this year. In particular, mobile internet access traffic has increased sharply.
The number of mobile internet contracts reached 1.601 billion, an increase of 31.32 million from the end of last year. According to publicly available data, telecommunications revenue for January-August was down 0.0% from the same period last year.
The number of 5G subscribers continued to grow. The three major telecommunications carriers and China Radio and Television Network Group Co., Ltd.
The number of mobile phone contracts reached 1.819 billion as of the end of August, of which 1.154 billion were 5G mobile phone contracts, an increase of 140 million from the end of the previous year.
In addition, the construction of gigabit optical fiber and 5G networks is progressing steadily. As of the end of August, the number of internet broadband connection ports nationwide was 12
The total number of 5G base stations reached 4,646,000, an increase of 395,000 from the end of last year, and the total number of mobile base stations
This accounted for 36.3% of the total.