China Unicom and China Mobile lose a record 21 million subscribers

China’s two largest telecom operators (China Mobile and China Unicom) will lose a total of more than 21 million cell phone subscribers in 2020, breaking all-Time records for both subscriber losses.

China’s two largest telecom operators (China Mobile and China Unicom) will lose a total of more than 21 million cell phone subscribers in 2020, breaking historical records in terms of subscriber churn.

Comprehensive mainland media reports, recently the mainland’s three major telecom operators have announced their financial reports for December 2020, combined with the first 11 months of 2020, the three operators lost a total of more than 21 million subscribers in 2020, of which China Mobile and China Unicom lost 8.35 million and 12.66 million respectively, but China Telecom grew by 14.59 million; the total The total number of cell phone users lost was 6.4 million.

China Mobile lost the most subscribers in the company’s history, and China Unicom broke its 2015 record of 12.44 million subscriber losses.

Regarding the situation in 2021, C114 Communications Network cited analysis that the probability of China Mobile and China Unicom subscriber volumes continuing to decline is very high.

The industry notes that not all of the subscribers lost by China Mobile and China Unicom have been transferred to China Telecom, of which there is a difference of more than 6 million households, which should be part of the real scale of cancellation.

The reason for the massive loss of cell phone users, according to mainland experts, is that “the three operators have adopted different strategies”. However, when cell phone subscribers on the mainland plummeted in early 2020, China Mobile’s chairman said that “this year’s operating figures were affected by the Xin Guan (Chinese Communist Party virus) Epidemic, which caused a decline.

Following the massive outbreak of the CCP virus (New Guinea virus) in late 2019 and early 2020, data released by the three major telecom operators showed that China Mobile subscribers decreased by more than 8 million, China Unicom by 7.8 million and China Telecom by 5.6 million between January and February 2020, compared to the previous years of 2019 and 2018, when the total number of cell phone subscribers of the three operators increased by 35 million and 5.6 million, respectively. The total number of mobile phone users increased by 35 million and 149 million households, respectively.

Internet opinion also expressed the bizarre situation of the plummeting cell phone subscribers on the mainland.

Wuhan Writer Fang Fang, who has repeatedly recorded the Wuhan epidemic in her diary and spoken out, wrote in her diary on February 13, 2020: “What broke my heart even more was a picture from my doctor friend”, “On the picture, there were unowned cell phones thrown all over the funeral Home, and their owners had all been They were all reduced to ashes”.