Flow is not clear zero, who first eat crabs?

Chinese netizens have heard the news, saying that he (Qing) Anger (Yi) is half (kan). Hi is, the U.S. emperor's operators are called "industry conscience", anger is that their own flow of the package can only be tearful farewell.

"China Youth Daily" has done a survey, 97.1% of respondents think that mobile phone package flow at the end of 0 unreasonable. So the question is, why is it that the vast majority of consumer opinion is ignored? Why do domestic operators have to clear the package flow?

Here are a few common justifications (Jie) by (Kou):

Flow clear 0 is international practice

The flow of their own money to buy, why the flow of excess to pay fees, unused traffic is clear zero?

Whenever a consumer so questioned, a common shield came-international practice. Before the media reported that the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States and many other countries are the flow of the end of the 0 policy. But lately, the policy has loosened.

In addition to At&t, the US's fourth-largest mobile operator, T, last December launched a new policy called "Data Storage", which also allows users to zero in on data, and the remaining traffic rolls into the next month.

American operators are beginning to not clear 0 traffic, then domestic operators dare to connect?

One-off packages are non-refundable

One idea is that since you're buying a month's package, it's equivalent to a contract with a carrier. That is, the choice of flow package, it has been admitted that the next month flow can be clear zero. Just like a monthly ticket or a year card, you cannot ask for a refund because it is used less often.

A more figurative analogy is, as a tenant you rented a room, this month outside the business trip for 5 days, this month did not live full, then next month you can ask the landlord to live for 5 days?

Or another saying is that you bought a meal at KFC, you can eat the hamburger, the French fries back?

Not the traffic, is the service?

Users believe that the money to buy a package, traffic is their own. Because consumers use money to pay for the purchase, the flow of ownership and use of the consumer.

But there is another view. Mobile phone access to the Internet is not enough traffic, but also to use the carrier communication channel. Therefore, the purchase of mobile phone traffic can be understood to be bought through the communication channel of interest, belong to the service rather than ownership.

For example, mobile Internet traffic is similar to the use of bus, buy is to enjoy the benefits of the bus service. But whether it is a bus or a road, it does not belong to consumers.

Prevent risk and keep profit

In the mobile internet era, mobile internet traffic to the operators brought about a large proportion of income. The design of predictable packages can prevent significant fluctuations in the operation and prevent the risk of rising costs and uncontrolled services.

As a listed company, the aim is to maximize the shareholder's benefit. If the business chooses to keep the flow until next month, the company's profits will be reduced to hundreds of billions of dollars, something that shareholders ' maximization companies do not want, despite the benefits to consumers. Plainly or in the interest.

Although the domestic operators have not yet launched 0 policy, but there are similar traffic season and six-pack package, to some extent, the flow of the next month is not clear zero effect.

With the changes in the policies of many international operators, as well as the consumer's strong demand for this, the flow of traffic is not clear how long or can be achieved. So the question is, mobile, Unicom, Telecom, which operator will be the first to eat crabs?