Since 1 september, the three main operators, china mobile, china telecommunications and china connect, have completely eliminated long-distance and roaming domestic mobile phone charges. This means that as of today, domestic mobile phone charges no longer distinguish between local and off-site costs. Journalists were informed by the communications authority of jiangsu province that this would benefit 30 million users。
The roaming fee is the cost of carrying mobile phone numbers out of the business at which they are used. The senior project manager of the market department of china mobile jiangsu company stated that “future times jiangsu mobile phone clients will call in the country, and the call will be collected according to local speaking standards in their current rates, and will receive the call in the country, free of charge. For example, the original charge rate for the package is 0. 2 yuan/minute in city language and 0. 4 yuan/minute in the interior of the country, which will be flatly charged at 0. 2 dollars/minute after full cancellation on 1 september.”
Some of the users of the old package are beneficiaries
"a man like me who's been working out for years is looking forward to the abolition of the roaming fees. The call to the home is tied to time, and the same money can be spoken for a few more hours. The 6-year-old mason of nanjing, working in shandong, told the journalist。
The abolition of long-distance fees and roaming fees is undoubtedly a profit for the people. Last july, china closed its mobile sales to include long-distance picnic packages. Last august, china's mainstream package cancelled long distances, leaving only 4 per cent of users with long distances to travel. Currently, core packages such as the 3g and 4g packages launched by the three major telecommunications operators have eliminated long-distance roaming fees, and only a few of the gospel and moving area users still have to pay long-distance roaming fees。
“the elimination of roaming fees has benefited middle and low-end users who cannot be accommodated by competition.” the independent telecommunications analyst highlighted the fact that the elimination of roaming fees accounted for a small share of the operator's revenue from communications operations and that the operator's concessions were limited. According to earlier estimates, from september to december this year, the three main operators are expected to yield $50 billion without compromising their annual profits。
This time, long-distance fees and roaming fees were cancelled, and the users of the three operators were not required to apply and were automatically effective. In the case of jiangsu telecommunications, the beneficiary group will be 4. 3 million, accounting for almost 30 per cent of jiangsu telecommunications users。
Reduction costs are higher
Mobile phone users seem to be more concerned with “flow charges” than with roaming and long-distance fees. In addition to customizing the basic set of mobile phones, ms. Wang is required to order up to $100 per month in traffic stacks. “every month with a few g-flows, it's like a quick drop, and that's a bit more of a discount for traffic.” ms. Wang。
In public, many internet users experience the embarrassment of “watching in a wifi environment” while using their mobile phone screens. Faced with high flow costs, many users have to give up their viewing in the absence of wifi, which is also evidence of one of the major people's expectations for faster reductions — lower flow costs and greater consumer benefits。
“the money that used to be paid for the 10m flow can now be paid for 100m.” according to the relevant head of the jiangsu telecommunications market department, traffic costs have actually been declining for the past two years. Quintine also indicated that since 2015, jiangsu's mobile traffic costs had fallen by at least 70 per cent。
In march this year, the three main operators announced their effectiveness since the rate reduction. According to china mobile, between 2014 and 2016, the average unit price of china's mobile phone access decreased cumulatively by 63. 5 per cent; according to china's telecommunications, there has been a 57. 4 per cent drop in china's telecommunications mobile phone traffic charges over the past two years; and, according to china connect, the average cost of china's traffic has fallen to a new low, exceeding 48 per cent, compared with the end of 2015。
A staff member of jiangsu telecommunications, who did not wish to reveal his name, stated that around 2009, with the full commercialization of 3g and 4g, mobile networks became widespread and the flow was in a “limited” era, “flows are valuable, individuals and enterprises are going to go wholesale to operators and, despite falling fees, demand for users is growing rapidly, and flow income is good in the annual financial statements”. He expected, however, that the era of various operators making money from the flow would end by the end of the year。
We're pushing 5g to speed up
“the constant downward revision of the flow costs is a necessary trend.” the communications industry strategic researcher, lee xuming, said that after 4g, mobile phones were more present in the form of mobile smart terminals, mobile payments, news messages, entertainment, travel, etc., mobile phones were more responsible for internet services, and voice calls were actually just one of the many functions of mobile phones. Cell phones have also moved from voice to voice to flow, and “down-flow costs” have naturally become the focus of public attention. “the fact that the three first operators of the pipeline need to match the needs of the population to reduce the cost at a faster rate and to provide themselves with a certain level of profit, and that only by accelerating technological upgrading will enterprises be able to achieve sustainable development, has forced the deployment of 5gs and goods to speed up.”
Journalists have learned that jiangsu telecommunications is creating eco-circles such as intelligent families, networking of goods, wing payments, etc. China's mobile has formulated a 5g development plan for the year 2020 and has set up a “china mobile 5g joint innovation centre” to operate applications and industrial layouts with industrial partners around basic communication capabilities, physical networking, car networking and industrial internet。
In his presentation, lee said that the 5g network was faster than 4g and that users could easily download a high-resolution film within one second. In addition to speed, 5gs have greater performance, more scenery and a whole new ecology, taking into account not only people-to-people but also people-to-persons, objects-to-persons, such as car connections, cloud-to-moderate robots, and yet another technological innovation. It is foreseen that the pace of “facility reductions” will accelerate further with the impact of technological advances, the spread of 5g and competition for private communications. Zhu su-xia huang hongfang
