China Computer Society: Three major telecom operators suspected of double charges

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BEIJING, April 6 (reporter Li Ying-lin) April 6, the Chinese Computer Society in Beijing on the "micro-letter charges" incident issued a special statement against the three major telecommunications operators of micro-credit charges, that this is a monopoly of enterprises and private enterprises between the interests of the dispute, The three major state-owned basic telecom operators have no basis to try to increase the fees and charges without the relevant legal procedures, and are suspected of double charges, and suggest that the State should strengthen the regulation of monopoly in the field of telecommunications.

The Chinese Computer Society believes that the three basic telecommunications operators provide communication facilities services, have been charged to customers the use of communications facilities, if the cost of additional customers (whether for value-added services or end customers), the alleged double charges, in the law is not tenable. Telecom operators are charged for information flow on the network, while the content of the transmission on the network should not be interfered within the legal framework. If you start charging for micro-letters, all of China's value-added telecommunications services may be forced to charge so-called "signaling fees", such as e-mail, online games, online transactions, search and so on.

The Chinese Computer Society is an academic group in computer and related fields, which brings together a large number of professional scientific research and technical personnel. The three telecom operators with the micro-service may trigger "signaling storm" and caused the basic telecommunications network paralysis, trying to collect the so-called "signaling fee", the society believes that, in the world's only several cases of "signaling storm" incident, the foreign basic telecommunications operators through technological innovation, strengthen their own infrastructure to solve, Rather than by charging a "signaling fee". In addition, the current telecommunications infrastructure operators do not have sufficient third-party-approved data to explain the micro-letter "signaling" caused the telecommunications network paralysis.

The Institute believes that the three basic operators in the provision of transmission lines, but also by virtue of its monopoly status charge high transmission content costs, such as SMS each 0.1 yuan (limited words), MMS 1 yuan. and micro-letters can be transmitted through the network data lines, the price is much cheaper. It is clear that micro-mail poses a challenge to telecoms operators such as texting.

In this statement, the Institute also from a technical point of view of the telecommunications infrastructure operators criticized: "Over the years, these monopolies have been able to obtain high (ANG) amounts of Monopoly only by monopolizing their operations, not making progress and not innovating in technology, and the application of new technologies is not to improve their technology and enhance their competitiveness, but ( Attempts to restrict, obstruct and kill by monopolistic status and administrative means, which was the same as the attempt by China Telecom to block IP calls and force mobile phones to use WiFi. ”

As any value-added telecommunications service provider must rely on and depend on the basic telecommunications operators, the Institute is concerned that these basic telecommunications operators may disregard the interests of value-added services and end-users, abuse their market dominance and industrial chain dominance, limit value-added operations on them and increase charges without authorization, And then increase the cost of social and economic operation.

The society hopes that the government authorities will continue to act under the Antimonopoly Law, "anti-unfair competition Law", "the State Council on encouraging and guiding the healthy development of private investment", "the Ministry of Industry and Information technology to encourage and guide private capital to further enter the implementation of the telecommunications industry," and other laws and regulations and policies to break the monopoly, We should expand the reform and opening-up of telecom industry, reduce fees and charges, encourage and guide private investment into the field of telecommunications and enter the stage of substantial and benign competition.