Telecommunication Billing Controversial People’s Congress Representative Repaying Fees in Seconds

Leading: The current telecom billing standard has caused controversy. The deputy of the National People's Congress re-raised mobile phone charges in terms of seconds. Is the technical condition that the voice call is changed to be charged per second is mature? Compared with other countries, China's mobile phone tariffs are high or low? Judging from the current billing standards, how much room for telecom tariffs can be reduced?

According to the Voice of Economy "Yangguang Finance Review," according to the current standards for telecommunications charges, during the two sessions, the NPC deputy and the Standing Committee member of the Municipal Committee of the Municipal Committee of Meishan in Sichuan proposed that phone calls should be calculated in terms of seconds.

Xia Jien-en said that he has already submitted a bill for second-second billing to mobile phones at the Fifth Session of the Eleventh National People's Congress. According to his previous investigations and calculations, under the current per-minute billing model, mobile, telecommunications, and China Unicom’s three major operators accounted for an estimated total revenue of 877.3 billion yuan in 2010, accounting for approximately RMB 113.2 billion due to multi-rate billing. The corresponding increase in revenue; if the money is distributed to the year about 860 million mobile phone users, each user is charged more than 130 yuan per year by unreasonable billing model.

Xia Jingen believes that the billing of voice calls on a minute basis is a violation of the "Price Law" and other laws and regulations, which are unfair and should be punished by a kind of arbitrary charges. In response, he proposed a solution: the voice call is calculated in seconds. However, some experts who are closely related to the telecommunications industry pointed out that: "The cost of technological transformation is large," which is billed on a second-by-second basis, and "is not connected with the practice on foreign countries." I see that there are also ordinary users who worry that even if a second-by-second method is adopted in the future, if operators increase the fee per second, then consumers may have to pay more.

Not long ago, Harbin City Administration of Industry and Commerce initiated the “Call for an Unauthorized Telecommunications Regulation” action, in which the billing standard for telecommunication tariffs has caused social controversy. At this year's two sessions of the National People's Congress, people's congress representatives proposed that "mobile phone tariffs should be calculated in seconds." However, industry insiders pointed out that "secondary billing is difficult and costly to transform." As an expert in the field of communications, do you analyze it? Is this not the case? Zeng Jianqiu, director of the Research Center for Information Economy and Competitiveness at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, made an interpretation comment.

Zeng Jianqiu: From the technical perspective, it should be no big problem to solve the billing by the second. There is indeed a case where the cost of a remodeling is relatively high. It is not reasonable to use the billing by the second, and it is not appropriate for ordinary people. We must first understand that one principle is that billing for billing is a more complex system. We now understand that billing by minutes, for example, is actually a result of a combination of various factors, and it is also an indication to foreign Unions. Globally recommend such a billing method. Why do I say a simple example through a variety of factors? There is a name called call setup fee abroad. Is this a name, and what is call setup fee? You called someone. Because you occupied the line, others would not be able to call you. I called you on my phone. You couldn't make it on the other lines. So you just call the setup fee. , we must charge. Therefore, according to billing not seconds, what time billing integrates a variety of factors, because it considers, for example, the cost, considers the situation of the call, and takes into account the economic development between the countries of the region and the state, so it is A more complex system is not simply billable in seconds. In fact, I think what the people really want to see? It is the reduction of tariffs and the reduction of tariffs. This is a tangible benefit.

Moderator: Lowering of tariffs is a real benefit. I think that on this matter, we also have controversies on behalf of the members of the two sessions. Like Xia Jien, whom we just said, he said that it should be charged in seconds, but China Mobile Wang Jianzhou, chairman of the Communications Group, said in an interview that the average monthly cost per user of Chinese mobile phone users is about 10 US dollars, and the average per capita communication cost in Europe and the United States is 30-40 US dollars. A lot lower, now our mobile phone tariff is not expensive, and with the upgrading of technological means, mobile phone tariffs will continue to decline, our actual situation compared with the European countries in Europe is not really low, but also so much lower What?

Zeng Jianqiu: This consumer actually owns a steelyard and has a standard. Our data is the same as that of Wang Jianzhou. At present, in our country, for example, mobile phone users, the cost of most mobile phone users is about RMB 60, 50. About 60, that is to say a level of 10 US dollars, Europe and the United States may be about 30 US dollars, of course, we in the tariff this, we not only to be compared, but also take into account the economic development level of a country.

I will simply say something about this tariff. In the past, the issue discussed with the friends of SMEs was that we could not raise the price of a tariff. It was all about whether the Chinese could afford a price. Later, I explained to him why it is not possible to use a single price. The development of economic levels in different regions is not the same. In the higher areas, you are calculating according to Beijing's high or low in Xinjiang. It would be no good. Such a situation would lead to what? The area that led to the high tariffs is very happy. The climb in the low-cost areas does not make a loss. Therefore, tariffs are a complicated system. When deciding a tariff level, it is necessary to consider comprehensively, for example, the imbalanced economic development between regions in a country. Therefore, our national tariffs should be said to be to a certain extent low-cost areas. The developed areas are tilted. The place may be cheap or even invest and build. There is such a policy in the high-tariff areas to subsidize low-cost areas. So I don’t think that simply because a second-by-second billing will benefit our ordinary people, To calculate. For example, if you have a lot of taxis and you charge by the meter, you will be charged more by the kilometers. Now we have the subway ticket. Once you take the subway, you can go somewhere. For example, if you have a friend, you can take only three subway stations a day. He is not losing.

Moderator: Different billing methods will have different problems. You just had a point of view. We should pay attention to how much downside the telecom tariffs are. We would like to ask you to talk about this problem one minute later.

Zeng Jianqiu: I think that our national telecommunications tariffs have been declining for the past 10 years, basically maintaining a 10% decline rate. With CPI rising, tariffs are declining. From a point of view, it is for our country’s The contribution of the national economy is enormous. I think this is something to be sure, but there is room for this tariff to be lowered. What are the reasons? One of the current telecommunications equipment technologies is developing, so the cost is declining, and the advanced nature of the technology makes the sharing, as well as the increase in the size of the user, allow us to reduce the cost. Therefore, I think that our people hope that the telecommunications sector can do a good job and that we can bring about continuous reductions in tariffs, but of course we cannot let the telecommunications sector not make money.

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