Experts: Mobile internet in urgent need of upgrade

China saw a deceleration in the growth of total mobile internet users in the first half of 2018, as the market is becoming saturated and is in urgent need of industry upgrades, according to a report.

The country was home to 890 million mobile internet users in the first half of this year, 3 percent higher than the previous period, said the report jointly released by Beijing-based market research consultancy Analysys and Hangzhou, Zhejiang province-based user operation service platform Duiba.com.

The slowdown contrasts with the growth rate of 3.5 percent and 5.0 percent reported in 2017 and 2016, respectively. In fact, the growth rate has been decelerating for five consecutive years.