On January 26, Nandu reporters noted that recently, on the People's Network leadership message board, some netizens left messages asking when they could cancel the caller ID fee of some packages. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology replied that the caller ID fee is not priced by the government, and currently only exists in some of the old package users who have not been transferred and have been discontinued, accounting for less than 2%, and will gradually cancel the caller ID fee within 3-5 years.
On January 7, some netizens left a message on the People's Network leadership message board that now that they have entered the 5G era, the current packages are basically reduced or reduced by the caller ID fee, but there are still a small number of early packages still attached to the caller ID fee, hoping that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology can reduce the caller ID fees of other packages under the arrangement of speeding up and reducing fees.
On January 24, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology replied to the netizen's message that in 2014, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Joint Development and Reform Commission issued the "Notice on the Implementation of Market-Regulated Prices for Telecommunications Service Tariffs" (MIIT Unicom [2014] No. 182), which liberalized all telecommunications service tariffs, and the current telecommunications service tariffs implement market-regulated prices, which are formulated by telecommunications companies according to market conditions and user needs, and are no longer priced by the government.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that it attaches great importance to the opinions and suggestions of users on caller ID fees, and since 2017, it has promoted basic telecommunications enterprises to give or include caller ID services in new and on-sale packages, no longer charge additional fees, and gradually promote the migration of existing caller ID charging users to free tariffs. As of now, caller ID charges only exist in some of the old package users who have not been transferred and have been discontinued, accounting for less than 2%.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also said that in the next step, it will continue to encourage market competition and strengthen policy guidance to promote basic telecommunications enterprises to further expand the scope of free users through the relocation of old packages, voice traffic resources to replace caller ID, etc., and gradually cancel caller ID fees within 3-5 years.
Written by: Nandu reporter Fang Shiqi
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