China Mobile's virtual carrier partner is coming soon

Tencent Technology Guo Xiaofeng reported on May 6

China Mobile's virtual carrier partner is coming soon. According to Tencent Technology learned from internal sources, the fastest this week, China Mobile will complete the resale agreement with 17 companies signed the final, then these companies will bring the agreement and related materials to the Ministry of Industry and apply for a virtual operator license. If nothing else, the fastest license issued this month.

It is reported that the 17 companies were: Di letter, love Shi De, Gome, Suning Internet, million net, share online, latitude and longitude communications, three five interconnection, bus online, Huaxiang Unicom, Tencent Communications, Langma information, Peng Ph.D., Century Internet, Postel, Yinsheng, ZTE visual pass.

Compared with the 19 FIC licenses issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the companies that cooperate with CIMC added 6 companies, namely Langma Information, Dr. Peng, Century Internet, China Post Putai, Yinsheng and ZTE.

So, why China Mobile's virtual carrier partners have these new faces? Simply put, Dr. Peng, Century Internet belongs to the broadband service providers, broadband has always been in the weakness of China Mobile, whereby the arrival of the virtual operator, with Dr. Peng, Century Internet test broadband home entrance broadband to achieve broadband access, make up Voice, short MMS outside of the broadband strategy; ZTE visual pass, video service providers, the video can speed up the 4G mobile business in the mobile; Langma information, value-added service providers, China Mobile Mobile Monternet Dingfeng peak event or will restart again; Yinsheng, mobile financial service providers, mobile payment in the mobile 4G trend is the key link; Post Pu Tai is 4G mobile phone is one of the important distribution channels.

Starting from April this year, 17 enterprises formally signed the "Mobile Communications Resale Operation Cooperation Agreement" with China Mobile. Cooperation includes: resale business from China Mobile to wholesale mobile communications services at a price, to be packaged as its own brand and sold to end-users; according to the resale business specific arrangements, the two sides will be agreed to specific areas of cooperation ( Excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). Derivative services that China Mobile can provide to resale enterprises include the tentative system, SIM card resource management service, bill collection and format conversion services, etc. If the resale business intends to increase its value with China Mobile Telecommunications services for cooperation, the two sides will sign a separate cooperation agreement on value-added telecommunications.

According to related applications, Tencent Technology revealed that at first the agreement signed with China Mobile was only a framework agreement of intent. The details of cooperation until recently were finalized. Such as the scope of cooperation between the two sides, product positioning, billing, operating expenses, customer service, information security system development, after many rounds of communication, information reporting, review, eventually the two sides reached an agreement.

However, Tencent Technology learned from China Mobile insiders, the current billing system is to use the lease or let the company still did not reach a final consensus.

Judging from the other two cases, China Telecom can lease only because IT support system interface has not yet been built, while China Unicom allows enterprises to build their own. The biggest difference between the two methods is that the self-built system can be flexibly combined tariff packages, the lease can only be used in the form of basic carrier packages, can not unpack their own portfolio.

The above also said that from the current main push China Mobile 4G tariff package, take the voice, any combination of data, the basic is not likely to allow enterprises to build their own systems.

The coming May and June are important window periods for the intensive operation of virtual operators. China Mobile also accelerated the pace of cooperation with its small partners. The first 170 segment has been officially on sale, the user whether to accept the influx of virtual operators pending market test.