Behind the broadband speed-up: tariffs and services remain lagging

From last year to move into the newly bought housing, Beijing Haidian District user Mr. Zhang has been trying to give home broadband, but more than a year down, in comparison of a number of different options, he was somewhat disappointed to tell reporters: "In fact, the community broadband access is not a lack of choice, but to find out, the most reliable or telecommunications operators, However, the price of operators are still some high, optical fiber in the household still need time, or wait. ”

Mr. Zhang's experience in China today is of great universal significance. For ordinary consumers, the Internet backbone by WHO to operate, Internet access between operators and the game between the decision-makers, are far away, only for ordinary users of broadband access prices and services are related to the real vital interests. In this field, although the competition of the Internet is very fierce, but under the influence of many factors, the status quo is not satisfactory.

Nevertheless, with the development of 3G, Wireless city and three-network integration, users have already been rid of the same root line of dependence, the Internet can still have a variety of options.

No choice?

As an IT practitioner, Mr. Zhang thinks that the various access methods of the Internet are still relatively understanding, so after staying in his new home, he does not want to use the slightly outdated Beijing Unicom ADSL access, instead of the other access providers to seek services. In his side, there are many colleagues at home with the Gehua cable, CRC, China Power, such as the company's broadband.

To his disappointment, however, there was no other provider's business in the vicinity of the new home, including the influential Chinese cable and the Great Wall Broadband in the Beijing market. He logged in to the two service providers of the online business, but how can not find out whether their home area can provide services. Call their customer service telephone number, reply All is "customer service busy". He through a friend to get a song Hua cable 400 phone, dial the past after the other side unexpectedly reply: "We here is Fangshan, not responsible for Haidian." ”

"In one city, 400 corporate hotlines are not connected. Even if they can get me broadband, I dare not use, who knows if there is a need to find people? Mr. Zhang told reporters that in his house on the wall, now there is a network cable, should be a service provider that year access, but now do not know that the company is still in, "or to find telecom operators, at least their business hall has been there," Mr. Zhang said.

According to the reporter understand, in fact, our country ISP access market competition is fierce, in addition to basic telecom operators, there are more than 700 legitimate ISPs can provide bandwidth, illegal broadband service providers are also a minority. However, although many broadband access providers, but ordinary people in the installation of broadband, will still feel the lack of choice. The reason is not the problem of leading operators, but the lag of other operators in the network construction and the lack of operational level service capability. This makes them only use the "skim cream" strategy to peg certain areas of the urban broadband market. By contrast, the backbone of China's operators is the world's leading network, basically every six months will be expanded once, which also makes it able to meet the needs of wide-area users.

Who is a "monopoly"?

There are other factors that are impacting the user's broadband experience.

Beijing Fengtai District user Mr. Wu told reporters that he once found Beijing Telecom Business Hall, but was told that his community can not enter the line. "Not the telecommunications do not want to enter, but a lot of community developers or property use the competition between operators, forcing operators to sign an agreement to pay ' entry fee ', who give more money let who into the line, sometimes exclusive agreement, only one can enter. ”

Beijing University of Posts and telecommunications Professor Shankai that the communication line in the community has "natural monopoly", the line is like a water pipe, any family installed a tap, it is difficult to accept the second company's pipeline. Thus, none of the countries of the world has ever been able to truly break this monopoly. But at home, due to the strong real estate industry, the actual implementation of this "monopoly" has become a Community developers and property companies.

In addition, some experts believe that telecom operators to the ISP's bandwidth wholesale price more than the retail price hit the ISP development business enthusiasm. In this respect, operators do not agree. A Beijing Unicom engineer to reporters saw a typical community broadband access switch, the switch has 16 10/100m user ports, and another 100M port for the upper network access. The engineer told reporters, the broadband wholesale price is the port price, retail is the user port price, 1 100M ports can take 16 (or more) user ports, all Internet traffic to go through the port, wholesale price per port of 100 yuan, retail price per port of 50 yuan, its revenue can reach the cost of 8 times times. "Of course, in the actual operation, there are some other costs, and users can not be full of all the ports, the actual profit will not be so high, but to say wholesale price is twice times the retail price is not right, to really want to wholesale and retail price to do a comparison, should be replaced by actual data flow, compare unit flow price, that is the same "The engineer said.

In fact, compared with access to the backbone of the traffic charges, network hardware construction and Resident Network service is the real reason for the impact of broadband access services, if these two contradictions do not solve, no matter how many competition subjects introduced, will also be the current results.

Users still have multiple choices

Still, operators are not without a point of criticism.

Mr. Zhang told reporters, when he entered the Unicom Business Hall, found to get the format of the contract with a decade ago, or at least five or six years ago, compared to the contract is not much different, is still 512k,1m, 2M several files, just increased the 4m,8m option, to want a monthly subscription, the minimum fee of 120 yuan/512k. "Over the years, the cost of equipment in the geometric decline, user demand in the geometric growth, then the broadband Tariff standards and service promotion change is it too slow?" Mr. Zhang asked.

The reporter learned that compared with last year, Beijing Unicom's major change in broadband this year is the addition of three mobile phone-bound "wo Family" package, of which 8 m package annual price of 1880 Yuan. Equivalent to $156 per month.

This speed and price reduction is not as small and medium-sized access providers (shared 10M generally only eight hundred or nine hundred Yuan), but also fell in the back of other regions, according to reporters understand that in Guangdong, Telecommunications has introduced a new strategy, 20M access only 50 yuan per month, and in Shanghai, fiber-optic homes have been launched, a full upgrade overnight.

"We're making broadband fast, and you'll soon be able to get 8M access in your home. Mr. Zhang left a glimmer of hope for the service staff, and he decided to wait.

Waiting does not mean that Mr. Zhang is isolated from the network, near his home, there are multiple Wi-Fi access points, and he himself has already run a 3G wireless card. "In today's mobile internet era, no one can monopolize the user, the difference is only the speed, service quality, price level." In this case, the operator must voluntarily reduce the price, which is a racing game. Mr. Zhang told reporters.

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Behind the broadband speed-up: tariffs and services remain lagging