We've spent 23 years on roaming
1994
Original post and telecommunications department circular: mobile phones charge $0. 6 per minute for automatic roaming
September 2005
The former ministry of information industry introduced “ceiling” controls on roaming fees
Year 2007
A representative of the national people's congress suggested the abolition of roaming fees, claiming that they were almost zero
Year 2008
Publication by relevant ministries: rover calls cost less than 5 minutes per minute money
The ministry of industry and communications issued an announcement that the maximum cost of the roaming call was $0. 6 per minute
2015
Entering the 4g era, the 2g business fell sharply and operators were forced to reform
No longer charge long distance and roaming fees in many packages, while introducing a long-market pricing structure
2016
The three main operators fully eliminated long-distance and roaming fees in the above-mentioned manner, and promoted "long-city" integration fees
Current
The 4g package for the three major operators no longer includes roaming fees, and other expensive packages (or unupgraded packages) still have roaming costs
On 5 march, in a report on the work of the government, prime minister li keqiang called for the total cancellation of domestic long-distance and roaming fees for mobile phones during the year. Yesterday, the three main operators of china's mobile, chinese telecommunications and china's connectivity indicated that the elimination of domestic long-distance and roaming fees on mobile phones would be fully implemented as of 1 october this year。
Yesterday, the head of china mobile shaanxi stated: starting in 2011, shaanxi moves began to provide users with a single internet-wide package called free-of-charge long-distance + market + roaming throughout the country. To date, the prices of all the new users have been achieved. At present, there are more than 16 million users of the mobile master market integrated package, representing 68 per cent of the total client size. As a follow-up, shaanxi will soon put in place a concrete implementation programme for the total elimination of long-distance roaming fees, accelerate the completion of the retrofitting of related business support systems and ensure the complete elimination of long-distance roaming fees for domestic mobile phones effective 1 october this year。
The relevant head of china connected to xinxi stated that, as early as may 2009, when the wcdma 3g network was ready for commercial testing, china had introduced a national 3g funding package free of domestic long-distance fees and no domestic roaming fees. After that, the new 3g and 4g listings were basically no longer available。
In 2016, in implementation of the prime minister's fast-discharge instructions, shaanxi union cancelled two rounds of domestic long-distance and roaming fees for mainstream funding packages on 1 october 2016 and 1 january 2017。
To date, the vast majority of users on the internet have eliminated long-distance and roaming fees, with only some of the former 2g users having separate long-distance and roaming fees, and the next step will be to complete the full elimination of long-distance roaming fees on 1 october under the unified arrangement of the ministry of industry and communications。
The relevant director of china telecommunications shangxi also stated that, starting with the listing of 4g operations in 2015, all 4g packages in shaanxi telecommunications are integrated meals in the city, and 60 per cent of users have chosen to use them. The elimination of domestic long-distance and roaming fees for mobile phones will be fully implemented from 1 october this year。
Background
Why set up roaming fees
Domestic communications experts highlighted the fact that, in the early 2g era of mobile communications, lower costs were associated with uneven east-west development, lower communications costs in the developed regions of the east and higher costs in the less developed regions of the west. In order to ensure that communications enterprises in the west supported higher communications costs, it was necessary to prevent low-cost households in the east from using lower-cost charges in the western part of the country over the long term。
The last life
Born in 1994, 23 years old
In 1994, the former ministry of post and telecommunications issued a circular on strengthening mobile phone management and aligning mobile phone fees, which required mobile phones to charge an automatic roaming fee of $0. 6 per minute。
This life
The 2g business is down
The real reason that caused operators to cancel long-distance and roaming fees was the sharp decline in the 2g voice business. In the 4g era, operators have gradually become “flow conduits” and, in an environment where voice operations have become more dynamic, operators have been forced to reform their funding structures, and long-distance and roaming fees have become “unknown”。
Following the entry of the 4g era in 2015, the three major operators began to eliminate long distance and roaming fees from a number of new packages, while introducing a “long-market” billing structure, which, after the users had arranged, made national calls (excluding hong kong/australian stations), which, in the operator's view, effectively amounted to eliminating long-distance and roaming fees。
Deal
How much can we save for the user if we cancel long-distance travel fees? Money
Currently, there are separate long-distance, roaming expenses in the package for some 2g users. How much would this cost, if cancelled, save these users
Yesterday, the heads of the three operators in my province stated that the system of long distance and roaming fees for cellular phone calls was so complex that it was not possible to obtain a specific and accurate figure in a short time。
Nevertheless, an approximate figure can be derived from the total number of mobile users across the province. According to statistics on the development of communication operations in the regions of shaanxi province, just released by the shaanxi department of communications, as of december 2016, the total number of mobile phone users in the province was over 3,813,000, of which more than 1,3. 16 million were non-4g users. According to the operator, there are still parts of non-4g users that still have separate long-distance and roaming fees, which, if calculated in terms of roaming fees of up to $0. 6 per month, would result in a travel cost of $36 per month for one user, which would be reversed on the basis of long-distance and roaming fees for 60 per cent of non-4g users in the province, with an expenditure of over $280 million per month per province alone (60 minutes per month per user). A reporter from the chinese commercial news
Shit
Cancel the roaming fees
This time, the three operators finally made a hammer over the cancellation of the roaming fees, and the netizens have something to say。
Does it mean that the food package is going to increase again
Netizens say that, with the elimination of roaming fees, the operator's interests will have to shrink, whether by shrunk or shrunk, and the wool will come out of the sheep, and it is not clear whether the losses will be recovered from the food set and the daily calls, depending on whether the major operators will later withdraw from the various upgrade packages。
The second point is that both telephone calls and traffic use should be uniform。
The cost of calls is to be spread over long distances and roaming, the flow of traffic is to be divided into provinces and within countries, and the elimination of domestic long distances and roaming fees on mobile phones alone is not an option。
The third point is that it's good to cancel the roaming fee, but now there are fewer calls, and it's right that traffic costs are dropped。
With the spread of mobile networks, 4gs have become a daily necessity, chatting software has already replaced telephone calls, and, in the view of users, it is now most important and most beneficial to reduce the cost of traffic。
The fourth point, when will the monthly rent be cancelled
As in the case of roaming fees, the monthly rental of a mobile phone has many unreasonable features. Cell phones are bought by themselves, the telephone charges are charged by themselves, and there are no monthly telephone charges, and the monthly rental license deductions are unreasonable compared to the roaming fees. Many users have similar questions. Xinhua news agency journalist pan xue
