Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: sending system information, wherein the system information comprises first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information is used to indicate at least one of followings: both a fixed-downlink time-frequency resource and a fixed-uplink time-frequency resource, or, that the first configuration information is used to indicate that a type of each unit time-frequency resource is not limited. This approach leads to a relatively low access delay of the user equipment, implements rapid configuration of a time-frequency resource transmission type, and improves quality of service.