China Telecom is the best at number portability

Although the three major operators seem to have reached an agreement in advance, none of them have officially announced their number portability information. However, a report from Xinhuanet disclosed the number portability data of Chinese operators. As for the question of which operator is the best in number portability, there is now a preliminary answer.

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1. Number portability has gradually entered the right track

News about the three major operators artificially setting up obstacles to number portability has been reported frequently in various media, especially by official media such as CCTV. From the reports of the news media, although the three major operators have implemented obstacles to restrict users' free number portability to a certain extent, the situation has improved significantly after being governed.

Interested friends can search on Baidu for reports on CCTV, People's Daily and other official media about operators' restrictions on number portability, and track the operators' verification and internal handling of related reports. It should be said that without the strong intervention of the regulatory authorities, the effectiveness of number portability, which has been implemented for many years, will be difficult to show.

According to the official media's evaluation, after the regulatory authorities vigorously promoted governance, the three major operators standardized number portability services, continuously increased the training of service personnel at each contact point, continuously optimized the processing procedures, improved the quality of number portability services, and politically returned the right of choice to users, ensuring that users "can carry, port quickly, and use it well."

2. China Telecom achieved the only net inbound

Although China Mobile has the largest number of cumulative outbound users, and the number is nearly 1 million more than China Unicom, considering the huge scale of China Mobile's mobile phone users, Xinhua News Agency's report shows that from the perspective of outbound phone portability, China Mobile's outbound phone portability rate is 0.8%, slightly lower than the overall market outbound phone portability rate of 0.9%.

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3. China Telecom was the only country to achieve positive growth

Due to the impact of the new coronavirus outbreak at the beginning of the year and the complex and changing macroeconomic situation, although the operating income of the three major operators has achieved positive growth, China Telecom is the only operator to achieve positive growth in mobile phone users, and the growth is also very considerable.

Although we are not sure what the main reason is for China Telecom to achieve mobile phone user growth, there are two factors worth studying: on the one hand, the number portability has achieved net inflow, and on the other hand, it has further expanded and bundled new mobile phone users with broadband.

Here we remind everyone to pay special attention that even in 2021, China Telecom has achieved the only net growth in the scale of mobile phone users. Data from the first two months of this year showed that China Telecom had a cumulative net increase of 1.78 million users, while China Mobile and China Unicom had negative growth of 4.74 million and 560,000 users respectively.

4. How did China Telecom achieve its positive growth?

Many people are very concerned about how China Telecom achieved its net increase in mobile phone users. Although we do not have a clear answer, we can make logical inferences based on the correlation between various businesses. These two factors are very important, or the only factors.

China Telecom had a net increase of 14.6 million mobile phone users in 2020, and its net number portability users were 4.23 million. If calculated in a rough way, the proportion of net number portability users to the net increase in mobile phone users is 28.9%, which is close to one-third.

In addition, China Telecom now has 150 million broadband users, which can be bundled with 450 million mobile phone users. However, China Telecom currently has only 350 million mobile phone users. In other words, China Telecom can still expand a large number of mobile phone users through broadband.

Here is a very valuable reference for everyone. The reason why China Telecom can achieve net inbound number portability is actually largely related to its broadband expansion and bundling of mobile phone users. We can infer that without the broadband expansion capability, China Telecom would find it difficult to achieve net inbound number portability.

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When analyzing the number of number portability, the net increase in mobile phone users, the scale of broadband development, the scale of 5G package users, the number of 5G base stations built, etc., it is necessary to conduct a multi-dimensional cross-correlation analysis. After all, integrated development is already a must for operators, and it is an inevitable trend for the coordinated development of various businesses to affect the entire body.