Traffic roaming charges will be cancelled from July 1, but this kind of mobile phone number cannot be enjoyed.
BEIJING, June 23 (Reporter Wu Tao) On the 22nd, the time for canceling the roaming charges was finally determined by the three major telecom operators — — It will be implemented on July 1.
Who will benefit from the cancellation of roaming charges? Distinguish between new and old users? How much money can you save? Many people are more concerned, but will the cancellation of traffic roaming charges cause new problems that users are concerned about?
Data Map: Citizens are using traffic to surf the Internet. China News Service reporter Hou Yushe
Look at that! Are you the most beneficial type of user?
"I had a surplus of traffic in the package last month, and I went to other places, and the bill generated a traffic fee outside the package." It turns out that many netizens used to have this doubt. In July, this problem will be solved.
On the 22nd, the three major telecom operators, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, announced that the provincial traffic of new and old users will be upgraded to domestic traffic (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan traffic) from July 1st.
The reporter found out that before and after the cancellation of traffic roaming charges, the price of traffic outside the package has hardly changed. Take China Mobile as an example, the price of out-of-package traffic is 0.29 yuan /MB.
Therefore, it has nothing to do with mobile phone users who don’t use the package, how much traffic they use and how much they spend, and clearly mark the price.
So who will benefit? Mainly users who used to use local packages. After the roaming fee is cancelled, as long as there is traffic in your package, you can use it safely wherever you go in China.
Some netizens said that in the future, business trips, tourism, etc. in other places can save traffic fees. Even if the job is transferred to a new city, there is no need to change the local mobile phone number, thus avoiding the trouble of handling the new mobile phone number.
For example, Beijing local package user A, whose package does not contain free national traffic, went to Chongqing on business in January and used 1G traffic in Chongqing. A If you are a mobile subscriber in China, you need to pay extra traffic charges in 30 yuan (60 yuan before June 1st), and if you are a subscriber in China Unicom and China Telecom, you need to pay extra in 60 yuan.
After July 1st, if A’s original local package traffic is enough, the above-mentioned extra traffic fee can be saved.
Attention! Some users cannot upgrade to domestic traffic yet.
According to the announcements of the three major operators, the provincial traffic of domestic new and old mobile phone users can be upgraded to domestic traffic. Are there any special circumstances?
The answer is "yes".
The reporter noticed that after the three major operators announced the cancellation of traffic roaming charges from July 1, many netizens left a message asking whether the campus card was also within the adjustment range. "It would be great if the traffic in the campus card also became the national traffic."
Can these relatively special packages or mobile phone cards be upgraded to national traffic? The reporter contacted the customer service of the three major operators and learned that campus packages, community packages, subway traffic packages and airport traffic packages are not within the scope of this adjustment.
China Telecom’s customer service said that the original preferential package for the area based on base station positioning (the maximum range is smaller than the local network) will not be adjusted this time. China Unicom customer service said that because the traffic in the community has already enjoyed preferential tariffs, it is not subject to rigidity in this adjustment, so it will not be adjusted.
Fu Liang, an independent analyst in the telecommunications industry, also told reporters on the 22nd that from the feedback from various places, the local and provincial traffic included in the package has been directly changed to national traffic, except for packages with obvious regional restrictions such as subway traffic packages and campus traffic packages.
Data map: users are watching videos with mobile phone traffic. Zhongxin. com Cheng Chunyu photo
Rest assured! After the traffic roaming fee is cancelled, the tariff will not rise.
In addition to special users such as campus cards, Fu Liang said in an interview with Zhongxin.com that because the new package is not changed, the use range of traffic is expanded, so for users, the average tariff of their own traffic remains unchanged or slightly decreases, but it will not rise.
Fu Liang also said, "Before canceling the roaming charges, users who grab unlimited packages in the province may become beneficiaries. However, this feeling will gradually weaken and disappear as operators continue to speed up and reduce fees and continuously introduce new packages. "
The reporter noted that, in fact, the three major operators have made preparations in advance for the cancellation of traffic roaming charges. Since May this year, the new packages designed by the three major operators basically no longer have local traffic; In addition, the unlimited package has been upgraded at a reduced price.
For example, China Mobile recently launched an unlimited traffic package for 88 yuan/month, and the original unlimited package was at least 100 yuan per month; China Unicom upgraded the original unlimited ice cream package to a cheaper size ice card.
Some analysts said in an interview with Zhongxin.com that "everyone knows that the policy is coming, so that users can be locked in advance to prevent loss, and those who use local packages also have the incentive to change packages."
In June 2017, China News Network Weibo launched a report on "Mobile phone traffic is actually divided into local traffic and national use. What do you think?" The small survey attracted the attention of netizens. screenshot
Speed! It only took more than three months to cancel the policy of roaming charges.
The topic of traffic roaming fee cancellation can be traced back to 2017 at the earliest. According to the established plan, the three major operators completely canceled the domestic long-distance and roaming charges of mobile phones from September 1 last year, but they still distinguished between local traffic and national traffic.
In June 2017, before the cancellation of domestic long-distance and roaming charges for mobile phones, Zhongxin.com was the first to plan and report that "Long-distance roaming charges for mobile phones will cancel traffic, so why should it be divided into local and national ones?" ",the problem of traffic roaming charges began to attract strong attention from netizens.
On March 5, 2018, the cancellation of traffic roaming fees was written into the 2018 government work report.
On March 6, 2018, relevant officials of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that basic telecommunications enterprises should be urged to implement it quickly and make preparations for implementation as soon as possible. Basic telecommunications companies said that they will go all out to work overtime to advance the work process, and strive to implement it on July 1 this year (cancellation of roaming charges).
On June 22, 2018, the three major operators announced one after another that since July 1, 2018, the roaming charges for traffic will be cancelled, and the provincial traffic of new and old domestic users will be upgraded to domestic traffic.
Data Map: Various mobile phone cards.
Extend! Speed up and reduce fees for four years, what is the space for subsequent fee reduction?
By the end of May, the total number of mobile phone users in the three basic telecommunications enterprises was nearly 1.5 billion. The policy of speeding up and reducing fees has benefited almost every mobile phone user.
Speed-up and fee reduction dates back to 2015 at the earliest. On May 5 of that year, the three major operators issued the first plan to speed up and reduce fees, which opened the curtain of speeding up and reducing fees.
In May 2015, China Mobile said that by the end of the year, the comprehensive traffic tariff would drop by 35%; China Unicom said that the unit price of traffic is reduced by more than 20%; China Telecom, on the other hand, reduced the broadband price by nearly 40% and the traffic fee by 30%.
Since August 2015, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei mobile roaming fee has been cancelled; Since October, mobile phone traffic has not been cleared in a single month.
In 2015, the three major operators also intensively lowered the international roaming charges, with the largest drop exceeding 90%.
Since September 1, 2017, the three major operators have completely cancelled domestic long-distance and call roaming charges.
The effect is also obvious. In March of this year, Miao Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that in terms of fee reduction, user fees are declining. In the past three years, broadband user fees have dropped by 90%, and mobile user fees have dropped by 83.5%.
At the same time of tariff reduction, consumers are consuming more and more traffic. In May, the average domestic mobile Internet access traffic was nearly 4GB, reaching a new high.
Xiang Ligang, an expert in the communication industry, said that there is room for further price reduction of traffic charges in the future, which is also in line with the development of operators and the needs of users. (End)