In recent years, the communications industry in our country has been vigorously pursuing speeding down and charging down. The effect is remarkable. In particular, remarkable achievements were achieved in 2017, including the one-month cancellation of long-distance roaming charges in domestic mobile phones, the steady increase in network speed, and the monthly mobile Internet users' 2GB traffic per MB Traffic costs less than 2 cents and so on.
Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference on the macroeconomic situation. Press briefing by Meng Wei introduced the cost-cutting work in 2018 and put forward that it will continue to vigorously clean up and regulate the charges for enterprises, including lowering the telecommunication charges.
Meng Wei said that it will urge the basic telecom enterprises to further implement measures to reduce charges such as long distance charges and roaming charges for mobile phones, reduce the traffic tariffs and the standard tariffs for small and medium enterprises, as well as the international roaming tariffs for Hong Kong, Maucao and Taiwan.
According to the MIIT's statistics, the mobile Internet access traffic was 24.6 billion GB in 2017, an increase of 162.7% over the previous year, an increase of 38.7% over the previous year. The average monthly mobile Internet access reached 1775MB per user, 2.3 times the previous year, Which is up to 2752MB in December, a year-on-year increase of 1.5 times 1088MB.