Nanfang daily: 3G times, how high is the cost of change?

The advent of the 3G era, not only for users to open the mobile phone high-speed surfing the door, but also through the restructuring of the telecommunications industry to provide users with a richer choice of services. At present, the three major domestic telecom operators ——— China Mobile, China Telecom, Unicom have already owned mobile communications licences, theoretically, we can completely according to their own preferences for free choice.　　But unfortunately, the domestic telecommunications industry is still not implementing the transfer policy, mobile phone number is still belonging to the operator's property, which has created a problem for the user to transfer the network ——— another operator will have to change the number, or even within the operator to change the brand business may be required to replace the number. Not only that, because the current three operators are operating three different standard 3G network, if the change is only to use 3G, it may also need to bear the additional cost of the machine, so all sorts of annoyance. So how much does it cost to replace a number, especially a 3G number? Is it worth the cost to experience 3G?　　We might as well study it carefully. Direct change: Trouble but cost is not high at present, the structure of the three operators, China Mobile occupies more than 70% of the existing mobile phone users, in the absolute leading position, so in the user's number resources, it also occupies the highest market share. Therefore, in the operator's transfer network, China Mobile turned out the cost of the most interesting, especially the advent of the 3G era, the three major operators of the 3G business at the same time, the progress is not far from the situation, the original part of China Mobile 2G users want to try other operators of the proportion of 3G service　　Therefore, in our cost analysis, we would prefer to set up China Mobile to transfer samples, then from China Mobile to China Unicom or Chinese telecom to what cost? I believe we all know that the most troublesome to change mobile phone number is to inform friends and family, which on the one hand can not accurately calculate the time, energy expenditure, on the other hand, is able to approximate the cost of the calculation. China Mobile to the Chinese unicom as an example, the replacement of the SIM card and the choice does not need to deposit the number of the fixed cost of 120 yuan, the rest is the new number to inform friends and family costs. At present, there are two ways: one is mass SMS notification, according to 0.10 Yuan/article, the user's original mobile phone commonly used contact for 500 people, then this cost is 50 yuan, of course, the general user will not have so many commonly used contacts, there are hundreds need to send text messages to change the object has been very good, In fact, this expenditure is generally only more than 10 20 yuan, is not very high; the other is to set up a DIY ring tone + call transfer method, that is, users to enable the new number at the same time, the short time does not shut down the old number but the old number call to the new number, and set up a personal DIY ring for the new number, The content is to tell the person who dialed the phone number to change. To take this approach, the cost of spending is lessGood calculation, because the user can choose to set the call after a period of time not to answer the phone to maximize the cost savings, but if you still keep answering the phone, then pay the call transfer fee, the number of calls to see the number of users and the length of the answer to calculate, so do not calculate the exact number. This shows that the replacement of mobile phone number of the most cost-effective means of notification is in fact a mass message, one-time input efficiency, cost less, and its major operators have launched a short message preferential packages, the cost may be further reduced.　　Therefore, for the number of change, the biggest cost is the user of the old mobile phone number of the feelings of abandon, such as the original number is beautiful or have special significance. Want to use 3G: Change is the biggest expenditure mentioned above is from China Mobile to the other two operators issue cost of expenses, in fact, the Chinese unicom, the telecom to the mobile number of the pure tariff cost is the same, not expensive, but because of the current domestic three major operators of the 3G format is different, If the user is because want to experience 3G and change, the cost can not only inform friends and family need to pay the message fee so simple.　　As we all know, at present China Mobile, China Telecom, Unicom are using TD-SCDMA, CDMA2000EVDO, WCDMA three different network system, the three kinds of system corresponding to the terminal market tariffs are very different, which also led to the replacement of the number of users to pay a very different price. The same is the number of the transfer of China Mobile, for example, if the object is to transfer the Chinese unicom 3G number, you need to buy support for WCDMA mobile phones, this aspect because the development of WCDMA mobile phone is the most mature, in fact, can save a lot of costs. According to the reporter survey found that the current market price of the most inexpensive WCDMA mobile phone prices have fallen below thousand yuan, and almost all international brands have WCDMA mobile phone listed sales, the choice of terminal models more than 500, very rich, cost-effective.　　Chinese telecom users want to transfer to China Unicom is the same, the overall cost of not only about thousand yuan, even if the function of the higher end of the smartphone at 2000-3000 Yuan Price also has a large number of options, the average cost is lower. However, if it is China Mobile, China Unicom's users to the Chinese telecom, or the Chinese unicom, telecom users change the number of China Mobile, the situation is greatly different. Compared to WCDMA, TD mobile phones and CDMA2000EVDO mobile phones and the type and number is greatly inferior, the current market only in the hundreds up and down, and the price distribution is very uneven, to China Mobile TD mobile phone as an example, although there are around the model, but mostly domestic brands, and a small number of , the rest is a high-end model with a price of more than 3000 yuan, the midrange positioning of the 2000-3000-dollar TD mobile phone is very rare, which led to the user either can only buy not mobile internet featuresLow-end TD mobile phones, or can only afford to buy high-end mobile phones. Although China Mobile has launched a number of prepaid phone purchase of the market promotion, but users change the one-time cost is often not a decimal, the user's affordability is a test.　　The same situation also occurred in China Telecom, CDMA2000EVDO Standard mobile phone also lack of rich midrange model to choose from, users can only buy about thousand yuan of the entry-level model, or you have to buy more than 3000 of high-end models, a weaker price. To sum up, for users who want to experience 3G, in fact, the direct replacement cost is not expensive, the real difficulty is whether the user will be willing to change the number and willing to pay an extra fee to buy 3G mobile phone.　　In particular, want to change the number to China Mobile and China Telecom users, to get a better mobile phone internet experience, often have to pay more than 3000 yuan for the extra cost of the machine, which is indeed a burden. Nanfang Daily reporter Cheng