According to the "Economic Operation of the Telecommunications Industry in the First Half of 2024" report recently released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), as of the end of June, the total length of optical cable lines nationwide reached 67.12 million kilometers, a net increase of 2.799 million kilometers compared to the end of the previous year. The proportions of access network optical cables, local network relay optical cables, and long-distance optical cables were 62.7%, 35.6%, and 1.7% respectively, with the proportion of local network relay optical cables decreasing by 0.1 percentage points year-on-year.

!Optical Cable Line Length Development

Development of Optical Cable Line Length

The construction of gigabit fiber broadband networks is steadily advancing. As of the end of June, the number of internet broadband access ports nationwide reached 1.17 billion, a net increase of 33.54 million compared to the end of the previous year. Among them, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH/O) ports reached 1.13 billion, a net increase of 35.42 million, accounting for 96.6% of internet broadband access ports. As of the end of June, the number of 10GPON ports capable of providing gigabit network services reached 25.97 million, a net increase of 2.951 million compared to the end of the previous year.

5G Network Construction Continues to Advance

As of the end of June, the total number of mobile phone base stations in China reached 11.88 million, a net increase of 265,000 compared to the end of the previous year. Among them, the total number of 5G base stations reached 3.917 million, a net increase of 540,000, accounting for 33% of the total number of mobile base stations, an increase of 2.4 percentage points compared to the first quarter.

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