Mobile phone users monthly average message volume continued to decline

Yesterday, the Ministry of Industry and Information http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/549.html "> released in May of this year's communications industry operating conditions show that in the mobile Internet business under the influence of the alternative, China's mobile phone users on average monthly SMS volume continues to decline, has less than 40.

Data show that from January to May, China's mobile phone users a net increase of 27,249,000, the total reached 1.256 billion. 2G mobile phone users are accelerating the transition to 3G and 4G. The cumulative net increase of mobile broadband users (ie 3G and 4G users) exceeds 70 million, reaching a total of 472 million, accounting for 37.6% of the total number of mobile phone users.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pointed out that the substitution effect of the mobile Internet services such as WeChat and Weibo on the traditional SMS and MMS business continued. From January to May, the number of mobile message service nationwide was only 314.62 billion with a year-on-year decrease of 18.4%, of which the proportion of point-to-point short message service was still over half; that of message service was only 260.9 billion, down 30.6% from the same period of last year. The average number of point-to-point SMS messages and MMS messages of monthly subscribers dropped to 39.8 and 2.2 respectively, of which monthly spot-to-point monthly subscriptions decreased by 19.8%. From January to May, the revenue from mobile messaging services reached 21.86 billion yuan, down 13.1% from a year earlier.

In addition, from January to May, the domestic mobile Internet access traffic reached 701 million G, an increase of 52% over last year's mobile Internet access traffic more than one-third, an average of daily mobile Internet access generated traffic 468 million G. The monthly mobile Internet access traffic reached 171.9M, of which monthly mobile Internet traffic reached 149.9M, an increase of 86.2%. (Reporter ancient Xiaoyu)