China Mobile: Caller ID fees will be phased out over 3 to 5 years

IT Home January 28 news, according to the Beijing News Shell Financial report, January 28, in response to the question of "when can the caller ID fee be canceled", China Mobile responded that the company has stopped selling caller ID charging tariffs on the whole network since April 1, 2016. In the next stage, China Mobile will continue to actively communicate with some customers who use the old package and gradually cancel the caller ID fee within 3-5 years.

IT Home learned that in response to the netizens' message on "when can the caller ID fee be canceled", recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology replied in the People's Network "Leadership Message Board" that the caller ID fee is not priced by the government, and currently only exists in some 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.

Netizens left a message to Xiao Yaqing, minister of industry and information technology and secretary of the party group, on January 7 on the People's Network, saying that when will the caller ID fee be cancelled? In today's 5G era, the current package is basically to reduce the caller ID fee, but there are still a small number of caller ID fees attached to the previous package, and it is hoped that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology can reduce the caller ID fee of other packages under the arrangement of speeding up and reducing the fee.