"A penny for long-distance, free phone calls" is no longer a dream

Summary: A penny long-distance, free dozen mobile phone is no longer a dream experts believe that the type of telecommunications services will be more, the market is larger, lower charges "economic reference newspaper" 12th from the authoritative experts to learn the exclusive, Ministry of Industry and other relevant ministries are accelerating the promotion of people's capital into

"A penny for long-distance, free phone calls" is no longer a dream

Experts believe that the type of telecommunications services will be more, the market is larger, lower charges

"Economic reference newspaper" 12th from the authoritative experts to learn from the exclusive, Ministry of Industry and other relevant ministries are speeding up the introduction of the pilot program of the telecommunications sector. At present, a full range of programmes, including the overall programme framework and detailed implementation rules, has been finalized and will be submitted to the relevant ministries, experts and stakeholders for comments, further modifications and improvements to the programme, to be timing.

This July, the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications development director Zhang Feng in the new state news conference has publicly said that the Ministry of Industry is drawing up the pilot program for people to enter the telecommunications sector, and is expected to be introduced in the near future. NDRC, director of the Institute of Economic System and management, Swit, said that prior to the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Experts Committee held quarterly summit, the relevant experts and the industry have to enter the telecommunications industry specific open way, path, capital market matching and supervision of a series of issues discussed. He pointed out that the entry of people into value-added telecommunications services would be a general trend.

The Ministry of Industry issued in June this year, "on the encouragement and guidance of private capital to further enter the telecommunications industry," (hereinafter referred to as the "opinion"), to encourage private capital further into the eight areas of telecommunications, including the encouragement of private capital to carry out the pilot of mobile communications resale business; Encourage private capital to carry out the pilot of Access network service and user Resident network business, encourage private capital to carry out network trusteeship Business, encourage private capital to carry out value-added telecommunication service, etc.

The above mentioned experts, will be the introduction of the pilot program will further refine the way and path to the telecommunications industry, in addition to the pilot will gradually allow people to enter the specific telecommunications business, as well as the corresponding qualification of the civil capital. It is reported that access network, mobile communications resale business, as well as value-added telecommunications business will be the first part of the business open to the people.

According to the industry, access network, mobile communications resale business and value-added services are through leasing operators network or equipment, to provide users with various types of telecommunications services. For example, such as the current foreign telecommunications industry more popular various types of video on demand, low-cost or free to call international long-distance business is this category. At present, the above three businesses in China to a certain extent to allow the operation of the people, but most of the need to cooperate with the operator mode. and the pilot program will be further open to the people's capital, allowing people to pay a certain network and equipment rental costs, independent operation of the above business.

Once in the UK O2 and other telecommunications companies as Customer Manager for many years in the London School of Economics and Political Science, international Business Management Doctor Deng Xuan told the economic reference newspaper reporter, according to Europe and the United States and other countries in the development of telecommunications industry, once the access network, mobile communications business and value-added services to the people's capital The telecom market will be rich in a variety of new services, such as in Europe and the United States are very popular low-cost or even free call service, which will promote competition in the telecommunications industry, the development of a new market, and consumers to benefit from it. Deng Xuan that, according to European and American experience, if the people can obtain independent operation of the above business qualification, the market will quickly appear low-cost business services, such as Europe and the United States and the popular "1 Cents Dozen international long-distance" "off-peak call free" and other business would appear in the domestic market.

Deng Xuan For example, a private company in the United Kingdom launched a "savers card" calling cards, the face value of 10 pounds can dial international long-distance 1000 minutes, on average 1 minutes 1 pence (100 pence equals 1 pounds), while the nominal value of 20 pounds of telephone cards, you can call international long-distance 2,500 minutes, An average of 1 minutes and 0.8 pence; In addition, there are many telecommunications service providers, the introduction of off-peak hours or weekends free call or mobile phone service, as well as "Stop theclock" service, that is, the user calls or mobile phones, if the call time of more than 3 minutes, no matter how long, Only charge 3 minutes for the call.

Some people in the industry said that "1 minutes long-distance" "free dozen mobile phones" and other telecommunications services is not a dream. Wang, a senior IT analyst, told the Economic reference journal if they are allowed to operate these businesses, the cost of renting telecommunications operators network and equipment costs, is a fixed cost, as long as the cost of recovery, provide the corresponding service vendors, can be far below the current operator's tariff standards, to provide services to users, According to foreign experience, even if it is 1 cents 1 minutes of call charges, as long as there is a certain user, the manufacturer can still be profitable.

Chu Hao, a researcher at ZTE Research, said in an interview with the economic reference newspaper that if the above areas were open to the public, more diverse and flexible telecommunications services would be created, and new markets would continue to expand. By then, not only will the telecommunication industry show a more healthy competition pattern, the industrial chain will be richer and perfected, and many telecom equipment manufacturers will benefit.

However, the reporter found in the interview, for the people to enter the above areas, the industry is still a relatively large controversy. China Unicom, the head of a value-added business unit told the Economic Reference newspaper reporter, at present, the value-added operation of the telecommunications companies are operating with operators, once free operation, will produce unimaginable regulatory problems "if someone from the operator here to rent equipment and servers, and then sublet to others, it is possible to telecom fraud, and pornographic websites and other illegal activities to provide an opportunity. In the interview, China Mobile and China Telecom related people also expressed the same concern.

For these concerns, it is widely accepted that operators are opposed, it is because once the relevant business is open to the people, it will make the people's capital in some telecommunications business to obtain a certain pricing power, and trigger a new round of telecom tariff reduction, which will be the current operator's income and monopolistic status caused by the impact "although the operator's concerns have some reason , but these problems can be solved by means of strengthening supervision and legislation. "Wang said. In this respect, Swit also said that should speed up the civil capital into the basic telecommunications laws and regulations, without the protection of the law, openness is not sufficient stability and continuity.