According to the economic operation data of telecom industry of February that announced by MIIT, mobile Internet traffic data consumption emerged an explosive growth in China, in which nearly 90% were contributed by the mobile phone users. The reason was that 4G mobile phone users kept a rapid growth and the popularity of Internet-bainian during the Spring Festival.
The report said that traffic data of mobile Internet reached 484 million GB from January to February, the growth rate of which reached 85.5% compared with the same period of last year. The monthly traffic data of mobile users reached 281.7M with a year-on-year growth rate of 75.1%. In addition, traffic data of mobile phones reached 432 million GB, which kept a two-times increase for two consecutive months, the proportion of mobile phone traffic data reached 89.3% in the total mobile Internet traffic data and became the first driving force for the high-speed growth of mobile Internet traffic data. With the steady progress of fixed-line Internet users, the fixed-line broadband access time reached up to 7.54 trillion minutes, with a year-on-year growth of 24.2%.