Free call is there, the carrier's purse is still bulging

The free call app will not bring losses to operators, most people's first reaction is: Of course! Their income on the phone was reduced. So last year, when the micro-mail phone was released, everyone speculated that it would be "the liberation of call costs" and "the Subversion of Operators".

On the one hand, operators Hehe declined to comment, on the other hand there are unnamed claims that mobile insiders laugh:

"The annual income cut is more than 10 billion." This variable is not felt at all on the carrier's hundreds of millions of plate. Ott's impact is not so fierce outside speculation. ”

Is this the so-called rich willful?

In addition to easy to believe, why free call app is very low-key

In addition to money, operators can be wayward, but also because behind the policy backing.

According to Mii February 2003, "The Classification of Telecommunications business", network telephony is a basic telecommunications business, in addition to the 4 major operators with basic telecommunications operators (telecommunications, mobile, Unicom, and Satcom), no other operating entity can operate the business. Later in 2013, Citic issued a draft to allow commercial testing activities in addition to the four-home telecommunications business. Although there are obvious signs of loosening of the policy. But the draft does not provide a detailed regulatory plan for Internet calls.

Mii has a clear starting point for the monopoly of free telephone calls. On the one hand, traditional operators are state-owned assets, they have invested a lot of money in building a traditional telephone network, and the low cost of Internet telephony, once opened, will have a huge impact; On the other hand, the internet phone can arbitrarily modify the display number, the government is unable to monitor the network, there are high-risk risks.

In response to policy issues, Lei Feng interviewed a well-known free call app PR staff (the other side has the pressure to disclose the company and name), said:

"There are policy risks to doing this now. We are also very careful, dare not vigorously push the product. Although the policy does not say that this can not be done, nor do you want to do, but we do this, affecting the interests of some people, so the company was interviewed very normal. ”

Operator There's no loss anyway now is no

For operators, losses occur mainly in the part of the call. According to the Ministry of Industry data, as of last September, the three major operators voice business income of 375.24 billion yuan, down 6.7% year-on-year. At the same time, the income of the voice business grew steadily.

China Mobile, for example, lost 16.3 billion of its SMS and voice revenues in 2013, but its mobile data traffic business grew 38.8 billion, from 66.5 billion to 105.3 billion. 2014 years ago, the three quarter, China Mobile network data traffic growth of 98.6%.

Based on the current 234-line City WiFi coverage is not high, most users are still using data traffic to use free calls. So the free Call app is launched, the operator is less of a voice call for money, and gets the money from the data traffic plus the Internet company that buys the base station. As long as the latter and can make up for the former, the operator is still sitting on the Jinshan. So the wool out of sheep, operators in the Voice revenue compensation is also the user and Internet companies in the bill.

So the question is, based on the current situation, why do operators have to make trouble for internet companies? Lei Feng Net speculated that this is actually the problem that the operator internal benefit is uneven. The business costs of voice-calling departments are reduced, and there is always someone to blame for this and to stop it from fading. Lei Feng's network to the Beijing Mobile public Relations staff to verify that the other side of the answer is not to comment.

Has the operation chamber been laughing until the end? The answer, of course, is no, it depends on the long-term development, the more developed WiFi, the greater the impact on operators. But operators will not sit still, because in any case, their control of the flow of traffic can ensure that they become the biggest successor to the interests of the Internet companies, but also is only the Muppets.