According to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, during the Spring Festival of 2024, the communication industry’s network operation was secure and stable, communication services were stable and orderly, mobile data traffic, and international, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan roaming services grew rapidly, achieving a good start to 2024.
During the 2024 Spring Festival, the accumulated mobile Internet user access traffic in 9 days (from 0:00 on February 9 to 24:00 on February 17) reached 6.745 million TB (1TB=1024GB), an increase of 21.7% from the 2023 Spring Festival on a comparable basis, with a year-on-year growth rate of 15.4 percentage points. Among them, on February 10 (the first day of the New Year), the mobile Internet access traffic reached the peak (781000 TB), with a year-on-year growth of 14.8%. The access traffic of 5G mobile Internet users increased significantly, with a growth of 72.7% compared with the Spring Festival in 2023 on a comparable basis, accounting for 49.9% of the access traffic of mobile Internet users. The top five apps (mobile apps) used during the Spring Festival were Tiktok, WeChat, Kwai, Tencent Video and Today’s Toutiao, accounting for more than 75% of all app usage traffic.
With the rapid recovery of outbound tourism, the average daily active number of international, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan roaming customers during the Spring Festival reached 2.98 million, an increase of over 100% compared to the Spring Festival in 2023 and 8.7% compared to the National Day holiday in 2023; Among them, the number of daily active roaming customers from the fourth to sixth day of the Lunar New Year was at its peak, with an average of 3.1 million or more active customers per day. During the Spring Festival, the total billing time for mobile phones nationwide was 69.75 billion minutes, a decrease of 0.13% compared to the 2023 Spring Festival based on comparable standards. The total number of mobile SMS sent nationwide is 31.85 billion, a decrease of 2.5% compared to the Spring Festival in 2023 based on comparable standards; Among them, on February 9th (New Year’s Eve), the mobile SMS sending volume reached its peak (6 billion messages), a year-on-year increase of 18.8%. The SMS business further played a role in reminders, verification and authentication.