Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: 5G traffic price dropped 46% to 4.4 yuan/GB in two years and will continue to drop in the future

What is certain is that operators will continue to reduce the price of 5G traffic.

Xiao Yaqing, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said that the user scale is also rising rapidly, and the current statistics are changing every day. The number of 5G terminal connections has exceeded 200 million, which may be the first in the world. 5G service satisfaction, from the perspective of the same period of development, is higher than that of 4G.

Xiao Yaqing also said that the average mobile Internet access traffic per 5G user in China is about 50% higher than that of 4G users, and the unit price has now dropped to 4.4 yuan/GB. It has dropped by 46% in the past two years and will drop further in the future.

According to a press conference held by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology today, my country has built the world's largest fiber optic and 4G networks since the 13th Five-Year Plan. my country's gigabit fiber optic network covers more than 100 million households, and the proportion of administrative villages with 4G and fiber optic access exceeds 99.9%.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the average charges for fixed broadband and mobile data traffic have dropped by more than 95% since the 13th Five-Year Plan.

Next, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to push operators to lower prices for fixed broadband and mobile data traffic. Of course, this is not at the expense of speed.

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