China operators add 100M 5G subs in H1

China adds 104 million 5G subscribers in H1

Local carriers had deployed a total of 4.55 million 5G base stations across China as of the end of June In sum – what to know: 104M new 5G users in H1 – China’s four major operators now have over 1.1B 5G subscribers, making up 61% of all mobile connections. China Mobile drives biggest growth […]

China operators add 100M 5G subs in H1

China’s major mobile players signed up more than 100 million new 5G subscribers in the first six months of 2025, a number higher than the 5G user base of all operators in the world except Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reported China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Broadnet added a total of 104 million 5G subs in the first half of 2025, taking the combined total of more than 1.1 …