By the end of March, the total length of optical cable lines in the country reached 55.99 million kilometers

A few days ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the economic operation of
the communications industry in the first quarter of 2022.
By the end of March, the total length of optical cable lines nationwide reached 55.
99 million kilometers, a net increase of 1.
11 million kilometers
over the end of the previous year.
Among them, the proportion of access network optical cable, local network relay optical cable and long-distance optical cable line was 65.
1%, 32.
8% and 2.
1%, respectively, and the proportion of access network optical cable increased by 2.
5 percentage points
year-on-year.

The construction of
broadband networks has accelerated.
By the end of March, the number of Internet broadband access ports nationwide reached 1.
03 billion, a net increase of 9.
79 million
over the end of the previous year.
Among them, the number of optical fiber access (FTTH/O) ports reached 970 million, a net increase of 13.
84 million over the end of the previous year, accounting for 94.
8%
from 94.
3% at the end of the previous year.
As of the end of March, the number of 10G PON ports with gigabit network service capabilities reached 9.
05 million, a net increase of 1.
19 million
from the end of the previous year.

The construction of 5G base stations is progressing
steadily.
As of the end of March, the total number of mobile phone base stations in China reached 10.
04 million, a net increase of 81,000
over the end of the previous year.
Among them, the total number of 5G base stations reached 1.
559 million, accounting for 15.
5% of the total number of mobile base stations, accounting for an increase of 1.
2 percentage points
over the end of the previous year.
Among them, 134,000
new 5G base stations were built in the first quarter.