Beijing, March 5 (Reporter Wu Tao) The 2018 government work report stated, "Cancel traffic ‘ Roaming ’ Fees, mobile network traffic tariffs will be reduced by at least 30% during the year. On the evening of the 5th, the three major telecom operators of China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom successively responded that they would resolutely implement the national policy requirements and work arrangements for "speeding up and reducing fees", and make every effort to push forward.
The opening meeting of the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress was held on the morning of March 5th. In his government work report, Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China said, increase the speed and cost reduction of the network, realize the full coverage of high-speed broadband in urban and rural areas, expand the scope of free Internet access in public places, significantly reduce the use fees of home broadband, corporate broadband and private lines, cancel the roaming fee of traffic, and reduce the mobile network traffic fee by at least 30% during the year, so as to effectively benefit the masses and enterprises and contribute to the construction of digital China.
Are you excited to see this?
After all, in recent years, from watching news to video calls, even playing live broadcasts and watching movies online, people spend more and more time surfing the Internet on their mobile phones, and the traffic demand is also increasing.
Speak with data. As of December 2017, the number of Internet users in China was 772 million, the number of mobile phone users had reached 753 million, and the average weekly online time of Internet users had increased to 27 hours. According to the data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the monthly average mobile Internet access traffic reached 1,775 m in 2017, 2.3 times that of 2016.
When will this gift package be sent to the people?
On March 5, Miao Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in the "Ministerial Channel" that "to effectively implement the new measures to speed up and reduce fees, we must not only cancel the traffic ‘ Roaming ’ Fees, but also reduce the level of traffic tariffs. Before the end of the year, the two measures were added together, and the mobile traffic tariffs dropped by more than 30%. "
The three major telecom operators subsequently told reporters on the evening of the 5 th that they would resolutely implement the national policy requirements for speeding up and reducing fees. China Telecom also said that it should act immediately to ensure that relevant measures are fully implemented as soon as possible.. It will further accelerate the transformation and upgrading of enterprises, accelerate the structural reform of the supply side, help the construction of digital China, and provide consumers with more intelligent information services that are available, affordable and well used.
China Mobile also said that it will go all out and step up the implementation of relevant measures.. At the same time, do a good job in customer service, strengthen product and business innovation, reduce customer communication consumption cost with practical actions, promote small profits but quick turnover, benefit customers and enterprises, and create greater value for customers, enterprises and society.
China Unicom said that it will actively take corresponding measures to make speeding up and reducing fees as a key task.. We will continue to implement the strategy of focusing on innovation cooperation in depth, build a boutique network, innovate marketing models, reduce tariff levels, and let hundreds of millions of users share the development achievements of the industry with tangible corporate actions.
So, what is the traffic "roaming" fee?
According to Miao Wei, in terms of fee reduction, telecom users’ tariffs are declining. In the past three years, broadband users’ tariffs have dropped by 90% and mobile users’ tariffs have dropped by 83.5%. Miao Wei also said that for the charging method of distinguishing local traffic from national traffic, netizens expressed strong opinions, so they proposed to cancel the "roaming" fee for traffic.
Xiang Ligang, an expert in communication industry, also said in an interview with Zhongxin.com that the roaming of traffic can be understood as the difference between "national traffic" and "local traffic".
The reporter noticed that many netizens left messages on the Chinese government website and mentioned the difference between local and national traffic. On February 4th, Wang Yunfeng, a netizen, left a message on the Chinese government website: "At present, a lot of preferential traffic of telecom operators is in the province, and they can’t use it outside the province, so they have to buy traffic packages again. It is suggested to cancel the difference between provincial traffic and domestic traffic."
More than one user also said in an interview with Zhongxin. com that there was still surplus traffic in the package, but when he went to other places, he incurred extra traffic charges. In fact, this is because the traffic in their package is local traffic, and canceling the traffic "roaming" fee is expected to fundamentally solve this problem.
"Local traffic is mostly a kind of preferential price traffic, but users are controversial about it. Its essence is to enjoy the service of national traffic at the price of local traffic." Xiang Ligang said, "Affected by policies, the future ‘ Local traffic ’ Or withdraw from the historical stage, which is technically not difficult to achieve. "
Will the traffic reduction be discounted?
The reporter combed the relevant information and found that the current traffic prices of the three major operators are generally concentrated in 30 yuan/G. For example, in the optional traffic packages of China Mobile and China Telecom, both are 1G traffic from 30 yuan, and 750M traffic from China Unicom. If it is reduced by 30%, the flow price is about 21 yuan per g..
It should be pointed out that the above traffic refers to the national traffic without other additional conditions. If it is package traffic or local traffic, the price will be lower.
"Now some packages, 138 yuan including 3G traffic, are affected by price cuts. In the future, it may be 138 yuan including 4G traffic, and traffic resources have increased by more than 30%." Xiang Ligang, for example, said that in short, future users can enjoy more and better services at the same communication expenses.
Xiang Ligang also said that it is very possible to reduce the traffic tariff, and there is room for price reduction. This price reduction method is in line with the development of operators and the needs of users, because consumers are consuming more and more traffic. (End)
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