Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: mobile data traffic has maintained growth during the Spring Festival holiday, with 5G traffic accounting for more than 40%.

CTOnews.com January 31 news, According to "Gongxin micro-newspaper" Weixin Official Accounts 31 news, During the Spring Festival, The communication industry earnestly implement various communication guarantee work deployment and requirements, Ensure the communication network operation safe and stable, Actively launch a series of innovative services, Promote consumption upgrading activities, For the Spring Festival digital consumption to create a good environment.

CTOnews.com learned that in the 7 days of the Spring Festival holiday in 2023, mobile Internet user access traffic reached 4.411 million TB (1TB=1024GB), an increase of 6.3% compared with the 7 days of the Spring Festival in 2022. Among them, the mobile Internet access traffic on New Year's Eve on January 21 and New Year's Day on January 22 was 629,000 TB and 680,000 TB respectively, up 13.1% and 6.3% year-on-year.

Driven by the expansion of 5G user scale and the promotion of new applications such as ultra-high definition video, VR / AR, etc., the access traffic of 5G mobile Internet users increased significantly during the 7-day Spring Festival holiday, increasing by 103% compared with the 7-day Spring Festival in 2022, accounting for more than 40% of the mobile Internet user access traffic.

While mobile Internet traffic services continue to replace calls and short messages, short messages play a unique role in reminding, verifying authentication and so on. During the 7-day Spring Festival holiday, the total billing time of mobile phones nationwide was 52.63 billion minutes, down 1% compared with the 7-day Spring Festival last year; the number of mobile text messages sent nationwide was 27.15 billion, down 6.7% compared with the 7-day Spring Festival last year, among which 5.05 billion mobile text messages were sent on January 21, up 4.1% year-on-year.