The meeting pointed out that in accordance with the State Council's deployment, the effectiveness of network speed-up and fee reduction has become apparent in recent years. The next step is to implement the tasks identified in the “Government Work Report” and to urge telecommunications companies to increase their efforts to reduce costs by promoting economic upgrading and expanding consumption. July 1 The “roaming” fee will be cancelled at the beginning of the year to ensure that the flow tariff will drop by more than 30% this year, promote home broadband price reduction by 30%, and reduce the price of SME green lines by 10% to 15%, further reducing international and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan roaming charges.
In addition to 'Four Reductions and Cancellations', the meeting also identified more practical measures to promote the development of the digital economy and information consumption - Accelerating full coverage of high-speed broadband urban and rural areas. This year 98% of the administrative villages will use fiber in advance, focusing on support for remote areas, etc. The construction of four-generation mobile communication base stations promotes Internet access services on aircraft and supports the expansion of free Internet access at hotels, airports, and stations.
The person in charge of the relevant department stated at the meeting that the speed reduction and fee reduction benefited the majority of consumer users and also played a significant role in economic growth. In 2017, China’s information consumption scale reached 4.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 10% of final consumer spending.
Since Li Keqiang's request for speeding up and fee reduction by relevant departments in 2015, the topic has been repeatedly mentioned on different occasions. The State Council Standing Committee has deployed more than 10 times to promote this work, and 'Network Speed Reduction' has been written for two consecutive years. The government work report. After eliminating long-distance roaming charges last year, this year will include the elimination of traffic roaming.
After the opening meeting of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, Miao Miao, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the 'Minister’s Passage' that in the past three years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has been doing a good job in accordance with the decisions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. Significant results have been achieved in speed-up and fee-reduction work. From the perspective of speed-up, China’s fiber-optic broadband subscribers and mobile-broadband broadband subscribers are number one in the world; subscribers with 50-megabit and above bandwidth account for more than 70% of total home broadband; mobile The number of 4G subscribers has approached 1 billion by the end of 2017. From the perspective of fee reduction, user tariffs have been declining due to measures such as increasing speed without increasing prices, unclear flow, and canceling long-distance roaming charges for voice calls. In the past three years, the fixed broadband unit price has declined on average. 90%, mobile traffic unit price dropped by an average of 83.5%.
Speeding up fees and reducing expenditures benefits the people's livelihood. It also raises higher requirements and challenges for operators. The three major operations have stated after the government work report meeting that they will resolutely implement the state’s policy requirements for speed reduction and fee reduction and work arrangements, and actively take corresponding measures. Speed up and reduce fees as the key work to fully promote, let hundreds of millions of users share the industry development results. Industry analysts believe that profit is not the only goal of telecom operators, but in the traditional flow of profit margins are squeezed, combined with the development of society and The new commercial landscape of new retail should be seen more, and the new Blue Ocean is also continuously unfolding.
