BEIJING, Beijing, April 29 (Reporter Cheng Chunyu, Wu Tao) After announcing several measures to speed up and reduce fees on March 6, the three major domestic telecom operators have recently released specific targets and plans for 2017. The operator’s new round of speed-up and fee reduction will be officially launched in May, and the international long-distance telephone charges will be the first to drop sharply from May 1, while the domestic long-distance and roaming charges with high public concern will have to wait until October 1 this year.
Reduce the international toll to 0.49 yuan/minute as of May 1st.
Since May 1, 2017, China Mobile has lowered the international direct dial charges from 6.88 yuan/minute or 1.88 yuan/minute to 0.49 yuan/minute in 21 countries and regions, and from 6.88 yuan/minute or 1.88 yuan/minute to 0.99 yuan/minute in 49 countries and regions. At the same time, the international roaming voice tariffs of all 64 countries and regions along the "Belt and Road" were lowered to 0.99 yuan/minute; The international roaming traffic charges of 53 countries and regions are adjusted to the unlimited traffic charges of 30 yuan /60 yuan /90 yuan.
China Telecom announced that the long-distance call charges of 73 countries and regions will be reduced from May 1st, with an average reduction of 90%, all of which will enter the "1 yuan District", in which the charges of 24 directions including the United States, Canada, Thailand, Malaysia and Germany will be reduced to 0.49 yuan/minute, and those of 49 directions including Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Saipan and France will be reduced to 0.99 yuan/minute.
On the 28th, China Unicom also announced that it will reduce the international direct dial charges for countries in the Belt and Road Initiative and popular and key directions, among which the charges for 25 countries and regions will be reduced to 0.49 yuan/minute, and major countries and regions such as Hong Kong, the United States and Canada will take the lead in implementing it on May 1st. From June 1st, the international roaming data traffic charges will be further reduced, and two data traffic packages will be launched, covering more than 130 countries and regions. Users can enjoy the 5 yuan start and automatic upgrade without ordering, and the daily consumption to 25 yuan or 55 metadata traffic charges will be capped, and the traffic will be unlimited.
The cancellation of domestic roaming charges will have to wait until October when operators are transforming their systems.
Regarding the cancellation of domestic long-distance and roaming charges, which is of great concern to the public, China Mobile said that it is promoting the transformation and upgrading of its business system and striving to speed up the cancellation of domestic long-distance and roaming charges for mobile phones.
China Telecom said that it should strengthen internal and external coordination and linkage, increase investment in manpower and resources, go all out to speed up the preparation of package tariff sorting, system development and transformation and channel customer service loading, and strive to completely cancel domestic long-distance and roaming charges for mobile phones as soon as possible.
The reporter of Zhongxin. com learned from China Unicom that China Unicom is also sorting out the tariff packages for users of the whole network, and carrying out system transformation, and will completely cancel the domestic long-distance and roaming charges for all new and old users’ mobile phones within this year, benefiting more than 100 million users.
Although domestic long-distance and roaming charges can’t be cancelled in May, at the policy briefing of the State Council Information Office on March 6 this year, all three major operators gave a timetable, that is, domestic long-distance and roaming charges for mobile phones will be cancelled nationwide from October 1. It seems that everyone needs to wait patiently.
Engage in preferential activities of traffic and tariff, and China Mobile Unicom will compete for the video user market.
China Mobile announced that starting from May 1, it will launch two "whatever you want" tariffs of 188 yuan and 288 yuan for new customers, including 12GB and 20GB of traffic respectively; For old customers to provide 238 yuan 15GB traffic "whatever I want" tariff; It also launched a traffic upshift plan and a "let me enjoy" traffic reduction red envelope snapping activity, with traffic as low as 5 yuan /GB.
In addition, since May 17th, China Mobile has cooperated with popular video APP websites to launch two video traffic discount packages for 9 yuan and 24 yuan, and customers can get 3GB and 30GB video traffic respectively.
Like China Mobile, China Unicom said that it will launch the "Chang Shi Plan" on May 17th in combination with the high-quality video content resources of the mainstream Internet, and launch free experience activities for users of the whole network before September 30th. At present, there are many mainstream Internet video websites such as iQiyi, Youku, Mango, LeTV, Sohu, bestv, Huashu, etc.
China Unicom also said that in 2017, the scale of 4G network will be further increased and the coverage quality will be improved. The scale of 4G base stations will strive to exceed 900,000, and the peak rate will reach over 600M in high-traffic areas, and local hot spots are expected to reach 1Gbps, so as to build a dual-Gigabit network.
The "Speed-up and Benefit Enterprises" campaign drastically reduced the special line tariff.
China Telecom said that other preparations for "speeding up and reducing fees" are in full swing. It is expected that in May, a nationwide special campaign of "Speeding up and Benefiting Enterprises" will be launched, which will provide China Telecom with a wealth of "smart enterprise" solutions while greatly increasing the Internet access bandwidth and reducing the Internet access charges for the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises, which is expected to benefit more than 10 million small and medium-sized enterprises.
On March 31st, 2017, China Telecom and China Unicom held a press conference in Beijing, and jointly released five major actions to promote the six-mode full netcom terminal.
China Mobile made it clear that from May 17th, the starting bandwidth of dedicated internet access will be raised from 2M to 10M. For customers whose bandwidth is less than 200M during the agreement period, the application rate can be upgraded to the next file free of charge without increasing fees. At the same time, since May 17th, special broadband products have been launched for industrial parks, commercial buildings and "double-innovation" enterprises, which are more than 50% cheaper than the corresponding comparable bandwidth products in dedicated internet access.
China Unicom announced that dedicated internet access’s tariffs will be significantly reduced again in 2017 on the basis of a 35% reduction in 2016; The double-creation cloud express product is launched, which is more than 50% cheaper than the existing dedicated internet access related bandwidth products. In addition, we will comprehensively strengthen optical fiber coverage for commercial buildings, parks and professional markets where small and medium-sized enterprises gather, and build a gigabit demonstration zone; Actively explore in-depth cooperation with industrial chain partners such as Ali, Tencent and Kingdee, and constantly introduce solutions to meet the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises.