The number of IoT users in China will exceed the number of mobile users in August

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, at the end of July this year

Chinese mobile operators providedConnecting 1.667 billion IoT devices. At the same time, the total number of connected mobile phones amounted to 1.672 billion. Thus, experts predicted that already in August the number of IoT devices connected to mobile networks will exceed the number of mobile phone connections. By the end of the year, China is forecast to have 1.399 billion users of IoT devices. In the first seven months of this year, cellular-connected IoT devices grew by 268 million, with an average monthly growth of more than 38 million. , 218 million respectively. According to forecasts, by 2030 the number of IoT device connections will grow 13 times compared to 2020.