The revenues of the three major operators all declined, but mobile still dominates.

Editor’s note: This article is from the Tencent Technology “Number Visualization” column.

In the first half of 2019, due to the gradual decline of 4G traffic dividends, the revenue of the three major operators declined compared with the same period of last year, but mobile still dominates.

Recently, Mobile, China Unicom and Telecom have released financial reports for the first half of 2019. Combined with the calculations of the financial reports of the three major operators, the three major operators achieved a total net profit of 79.6 billion yuan in the first half of the year, with an average daily profit of over 400 million yuan. In the first half of this year, the domestic communications industry market was further saturated, and the competition became more intense. What are the operating data of the three major operators? Compared with mobile, China Telecom and China Mobile, how big is the gap? Tencent Technology will use a set of pictures to interpret you one by one.

Intensified competition in the communications industry Both mobile revenues have fallen.

In the first half of 2019, due to the gradual decline of 4G traffic dividends, the revenue of the three major operators declined compared with the same period of last year, but mobile still dominates.

Three major operators semi-annual report: at least 50 cities will be commercial 5G during the year

In terms of net profit, mobile is still far ahead, but it is also the only company in the three companies whose net profit has dropped significantly compared to the same period last year.

Three major operators semi-annual report: at least 50 cities will be commercial 5G during the year

The three major operators have large differences in revenue structure. Mobile services generate high revenues

In the first half of this year, more than half of mobile revenue came from the personal mobile market, of which 194.7 billion yuan came from mobile Internet traffic. Mobile mobile Internet traffic in the first half of this year reached 29.8 billion GB, more than China Unicom and Telecom (China Unicom 14.3 billion GB, Telecom 11.2 billion GB).

Three major operators semi-annual report: at least 50 cities will be commercial 5G during the year

In the first half of this year, China Unicom further optimized its service revenue structure. In addition to mobile services, fixed-line services are another major revenue pillar of China Unicom. With its high-speed broadband advantage, China Unicom is advancing Gigabit high-quality broadband services in the dominant regions of the North and key cities in the South.

Three major operators semi-annual report: at least 50 cities will be commercial 5G during the year

Compared with China Mobile and China Unicom, telecom fixed network services have higher revenue than mobile services. Telecom has deepened the new informationization needs of the family and government and enterprise markets, and enriched the family application system. In the first half of this year, the number of users of Tianyi HD increased to 110 million, and the number of smart gateways and home cloud users was 61.8 million and 32.15 million, respectively.

Three major operators semi-annual report: at least 50 cities will be commercial 5G

Who among the three major operators has occupied the most 4G users?

In the first half of this year, the net increase in the number of mobile subscribers of telecommunications reached 20.48 million, exceeding the sum of mobile and Unicom net increments. In terms of 4G users, mobile has occupied the largest number of 4G users, but the penetration rate is not as good as telecommunications.

Three major operators semi-annual report: at least 50 cities will be commercial 5G during the year

5G license issuance Three major operators are ready to go

This year is the first year of 5G commercial use in China. After the issuance of the 5G license, the three major operators have accelerated the planning and layout of the 5G process.

China Mobile plans to build more than 50,000 5G base stations in 2019 to achieve 5G commercial services in more than 50 cities.

China Unicom plans to build 30 demonstration projects, 20 innovative applications, 15 open laboratories, and 5 5G application standards in 2019, and develop more than 600 alliance members.

ChinaTelecom has made a lot of efforts in 5G technology research and development and application innovation, and actively promotes the integration of 5G and cloud computing, AI and other technologies. At present, China Telecom has signed contracts with more than 400 companies to jointly carry out 5G+ industry application innovation.

Planning | Tencent Technology Ma Weihui

Editing | Number Visualization Jiang Liu Zhao Yongji

Design | Number Visualization Zhang Xingyu