Mainland mobile phone Internet access fee is 100 times that of Hong Kong

According to Voice of China's "News Evening Peak" report, with the popularity of smart phones, mobile Internet access has become a necessity. However, what is embarrassing is that the number of people on the Internet is constantly increasing, and the rates are also rising. Surveys show that the average monthly Internet access cost for users in Mainland China is 4 times that of the United States, 20 times that of Korea, and a hundred times that of Hong Kong. However, the speed is less than half of others.

Ms. Zhu, a white-collar worker in Beijing, uses China Telecom’s iPhone 5 and contract machines. In order to meet the Internet traffic, Ms. Zhu in addition to the custom-built "Business Pilot Package", he would also like to purchase an additional 500 Megabytes of traffic packages each month:

Ms. Zhu: Now that there is more Internet access, Weibo, WeChat, and what to look at on a web page, we use 900 megabytes of traffic each month. Sometimes I don’t have enough. Business pilot packages plus traffic packs will cost 200 yuan.

Ms. Zhu feels that she uses the iPhone 5 as a relatively new model. The Internet's money is spent like water, but the speed is not a force:

Ms. Zhu: The hardware of the mobile phone is good, so I feel the speed of the Internet is very general, that is, the brush does not come out, the picture comes out slowly, this is the slow speed. I think it's at least a bargain. It's either cheaper, or it will increase service and speed up the internet.

Ms. Zhu’s feelings were not the case. Although China’s operators launched a variety of online subscription packages, surveys have shown that the average monthly Internet access cost of users in the Mainland of China is four times that of the United States, 20 times that of Korea, and a hundred times that of Hong Kong. The speed of the internet is less than half that of the developed countries.

Ms. Zhu: I have a classmate who also uses the iPhone 5. He is very cheap abroad compared to us, and he is very fast. He does not adapt to the country. I think the gap is still quite large.

Tencent CEO Ma Huateng once said that many netizens are using the Internet to start surfing on the Internet and use it at the end of the month. This truly reflects the mentality of ordinary people using smart phones. At the end of each month before the end of each month to receive text messages about to run out of short messages, Zhang is going to college to take the initiative to turn off the Internet.

Zhang's classmate: At the beginning of the month, it will be used much. At the end of the month, it will feel that there will be no traffic.

In addition to the embarrassing flaws, some automatic updates on smart phones, and even malicious mobile money-sucking software, make netizens have to improve their protection against mobile Internet access. This year, Hefei citizen Lu Hao had spent more than 3,000 megabytes of mobile Internet traffic in just three days. The cost exceeded 1,000 yuan. The telecom company staff responded that if the mobile phone is not stolen, the cost will be borne by the user.

Telecom staff: We checked from the background, and initially judged that there were no suspects for copying the card. From the perspective of billing in the background, it was normal and it could not be stolen.

China Mobile's customer service staff also stated that in addition to the normal mobile Internet applications of customers, it is important to pay attention to the automatic update procedures on smartphones. If the customer's usage exceeds the preset package, the fee will be charged per megabyte.

China Mobile's customer service staff: According to the use of the situation to determine, or watch the phone above there is no automatic networking program, or the software will be automatically networked, resulting in more traffic to go, automatically update the data, automatically refresh the data.

Mobile Internet access, low network speed and high network fees, in addition to making netizens very sad, what are the implications? In the future, it is possible to raise the speed of the Internet, and the network fee will come down? Deputy General Manager of CCID Consulting Industry Research Center Yan Yan stated that the operator's monopoly operation is an essential issue.

Strictly: The three of them are monopolistic enterprises after all. Many operators abroad are very market-oriented. If there is competition, they will naturally come down. It is the competition of the three companies, not two, but also slightly better. So far, I think this is the core issue.

At the same time, Zang Yan believes that operators' previous huge investment in mobile 3G has not been recovered, and only the number of mobile Internet users has increased. Under the effect of economies of scale, overall operating costs can be reduced. However, the reality is that China Mobile, with more than 700 million customers, has the largest customer scale in the world, but the proportion of smart Internet terminals is not high.

Li Yue, President of China Mobile: The share of smart terminals in mainland China is only about 30%, and we have very, very broad market prospects.

In addition, with the issuance of 4G licenses during the year, operators will soon face pressure from 4G funding. Therefore, the strict analysis, only to maintain the current level of tariffs, thus supporting the operator's investment planning, mobile Internet access charges will also be difficult to lower. However, the current situation of high fees and low speed is certainly not conducive to the construction and consumption of information in China.

Strictly: This year, our country has been pushing for information consumption. It is based on telling the Internet that there will be a new business model for the future. I feel like this phenomenon has continued for a long time, whether it is from the field of information consumption or the promotion of informatization. All aspects of the process are disadvantageous.