Tencent Science and Technology News on July 27th, at the "9th Tianyi Intelligent Ecological Industry Summit Forum"China TelecomChairman Yang Jie saidChina TelecomSpeed up and reduce fees. Starting from September 1, the domestic long-distance roaming fee for mobile phones will be completely abolished, one month ahead of schedule at the beginning of the year, and is expected to benefit 80 million users. meanwhile,China TelecomIt will also reduce Internet dedicated line fees as well as international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan fees.
在China TelecomAfter declaring his positionChina Unicom、China MobileIt has also said that domestic roaming fees for mobile phones will be abolished from September 1 this year.
The early cancellation of roaming charges appeared as early as two days ago: on July 25, Zhang Feng, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a press conference that China will gradually reduce the charges for international long-distance calls in more directions. More characteristic broadband products will be launched for industrial parks and "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" enterprises, and the progress of abolishing domestic long-distance roaming charges for mobile phones will be accelerated.
Zhang Feng said that with the in-depth promotion of speed-up and fee reduction, China's digital economy will usher in vigorous development, and the competitiveness of relevant enterprises will continue to enhance. At present, the three operators have significantly reduced the charges for international long-distance calls in the main direction, with an average reduction of up to 90%, and have successively reduced the Internet dedicated line access charges by more than 15%. There will be more speed-up and fee reduction measures in the future.
It was planned to abolish the roaming fee from October 1.
On March 6, the Information Office of the State Council held a regular briefing on the policy of the State Council. At the meeting, the three major operators said that from October 1 this year, they will fully implement the abolition of domestic long-distance and roaming charges for mobile phones. The three major operators implement the "Government work report" and introduce the next step of work.
Truth investigation of roaming fee
EU experience may be useful for reference.
On June 15, the European Union announced that from now on, mobile phone users in the EU region will not be charged roaming fees when they use their phones to receive and make calls, send and receive text messages and surf the Internet when traveling across borders in the region.
On April 6, local time, the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission met again to vote on a bill to abolish mobile roaming fees for mobile phones. At the same time, it is stated that the bill will come into effect on June 15, when the call fee in the region will be reduced to 3.2 euro cents per minute, the text message fee will be reduced to 1 euro cents per minute, and the Internet traffic fee will also be gradually reduced.
According to the bill, starting from June 15, mobile phone users will make calls, send messages and surf the Internet in 28 EU countries according to the charges of mobile phone operators in their original countries. There will be restrictions on the long-term use of non-local mobile phones in other places. Phone cards have been used in other countries for more than four months, and the communications department will review the user to avoid abuse of roaming data.
If the customer uses the mobile phone for a long time in different places, the operator will notify the user by phone and ask for an explanation within two weeks. If users do not reply in time, operators will be forced to increase the charges for mobile phone users, including 0.03 euros per minute for phone calls, 0.01 euros per text message and 7.7 euros per gigabyte of Internet access. By 2022, the punitive charges for long-term remote use of mobile phones will be gradually reduced, and the additional charges for network traffic can be reduced to 2.5 euros per G.
For mobile phone users whose operators provide phone calls, text messages and unrestricted Internet access services at low prices, the package users are used in other countries of the European Union, and perhaps the operators will have to charge an extra fee, depending on the situation of the operators.
At present, the EU countries that can enjoy free mobile roaming are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
In addition, mobile phone users from EU countries also enjoy free roaming in Brexit Britain. Norway, Iceland and Weston will soon join the ranks of free roaming, but Switzerland has no intention of joining this "circle of friends". You should be careful when you travel to Switzerland.