Recently, the network speed-up and fee-reduction has once again become a social hot spot. The government work report pointed out that increasing the speed of the network to reduce costs, to achieve full coverage of high-speed broadband urban and rural areas, expand the free Internet access in public places, significantly reduce the family broadband, corporate broadband and dedicated use Fees, abolishing traffic 'roaming' fees, mobile network traffic tariffs at least reduced by 30% during the year, so that the people and businesses can benefit from it, to fuel the construction of digital China.
At the same time, "Daily Economic News" reporter also learned from the TCL Group that the National People's Congress, TCL Group Chairman and CEO Li Dongsheng also issued a call to reduce the tariff of communication services at the two sessions this year.
Communication costs are relatively high
Li Dongsheng stated that since the reform and opening up, China has continued to increase its investment in infrastructure construction, and many infrastructure such as high-speed rail, airports, highways, high-speed mobile Internet, and broadband Internet have become increasingly sophisticated, providing strong support for economic development, but many Too high public product charges increase the operating costs of the entity.
Specific to the tariff of communication services, Li Dongsheng pointed out that in the international arena, due to the differences in technological progress and the difference in operation and management level, the communication network fees in developed countries are relatively cheap. Take international roaming charges, traffic charges, and fixed broadband fees as an example. At present, China's communication costs are still high compared with developed countries.
For example, Li Dongsheng stated that last year the European Union had canceled mobile phone cross-border roaming charges among several member states, and lowered the call and SMS charges in an all-round manner. The United States also does not have to pay international roaming charges within the US-Caribriy Free Trade Zone.
According to the 2016 “Measurement Information Society Report” by the International Telecommunication Union, the monthly subscription fee for fixed broadband users in China accounts for 3.12% of the per capita national income, which is higher than the level of 88 countries in the world, not only far higher than the United States (0.35%), and the United Kingdom (0.42). %), Japan (0.51%) and other developed countries, even higher than South Africa (2.28%).
'The traffic fee is currently the most important charge item in China's mobile phone tariff, accounting for 46.2% of the mobile company's communication service revenue', said Li Dongsheng, taking China Mobile's 4G tariff package as an example, of which the domestic data traffic contained in the 138 yuan package is only 3G, and foreign communication packages generally do not have excessive restrictions on traffic. For example, most packages offered by Russian communication operators can achieve unlimited traffic. The average tariff is only around RMB 110.
Li Dongsheng believes that reducing the communication network's payment expenses is actually for the socio-economic operation and consumers to reduce costs. Before the advent of the 5G communication era, it is proposed to drastically reduce the cost of traffic and launch a more reasonable-priced open-end package service; further reduce International long-distance telephone charges, international roaming charges and broadband internet prices.
Increased speed and reduced expenses continue to increase
In recent years, China has achieved positive results in network speed-up and fee-reduction. In September 2017, the three major operators completely eliminated the long-distance and roaming charges for domestic calls of mobile phone users. This has become a milestone in the communications reform.
On March 5, 2018, Ministers of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of Miao Miao summarized the 'speed increase and decrease fee' effect on the Ministerial Channels of the two associations. He said, 'Recalling the past three years, the speed reduction and fee reduction has achieved remarkable results. In terms of speed, the broadband speed of households is The number of users with 50 megabits and above has exceeded 70% of the total number of broadband users in the home, and the proportion of 4G users has also increased year by year. At the end of last year, it was approaching 1 billion users. In terms of fee reduction, the unit price of broadband fees has declined over the past three years. 90%, mobile communication tariff unit price dropped by 83.5%.
Miao Wei said that in the future, it will continue to implement various measures to increase speed and reduce charges. In addition to removing roaming charges for mobile traffic, mobile traffic tariffs also need to reduce mobile tariffs per month per G, both measures. Together, by the end of this year, the mobile traffic tariff will be reduced by more than 30% from the previous year. At the same time, it will continue to promote home broadband fees, corporate broadband fees, and special tariffs.
According to the 2017 Statistical Bulletin of the Communications Industry released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the mobile Internet access traffic consumption in China reached 24.6 billion GB in 2017, an increase of 162.7% over the previous year. The average monthly mobile internet access traffic per month reached 1775MB/month/household. , 2.3 times the previous year. Among them, mobile Internet traffic reached 23.5 billion GB, an increase of 179% over the previous year, accounted for 95.6% of the total mobile Internet traffic, becoming a major factor in promoting the rapid growth of mobile Internet traffic.