On January 28, the Beijing News Shell Finance reported that China Mobile responded to the question of "when can the caller ID fee be cancelled", saying that since April 2016, China Mobile has stopped selling caller ID charging tariffs, and will continue to actively communicate with old package users and gradually cancel the caller ID fee within 3 to 5 years.
It is understood that a few days ago, some netizens reflected the problem of "caller ID charging" to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology replied that the fee is not set by the government, and only a small number of users who use the old package will charge the fee, accounting for no more than 2%, and will cancel the fee within 3 to 5 years. The topic caused a heated discussion among netizens on the Internet, and many people sighed that in 2022, the caller ID actually had to charge, and then frantically complained about a wave of operators.
In fact, in recent years, the newly launched mobile phone package does not include this fee, and the caller ID is given away by the main package. However, the previous old packages are all available for an additional fee, even if you are a 0-month rental package, you must pay an additional caller ID fee. The fee is generally 6 yuan, different operators will vary, the highest can even reach 10 yuan. Although it is not much, it is also a rather unjust expenditure.
According to the data, as of the end of last year, the total number of users of the three major operators was as high as 1.646 billion households, and the old package users accounted for 2% of the total, which also had nearly 33 million households, and the user scale was still very large. The vast majority of users do not need to pay this expense, but they still need to hurry up and cancel the caller ID fee so that all users can get fair treatment.
It stands to reason that the tariff of canceling the package should be a very simple thing, and the operator is really willing to estimate that it will be done in three or five days. Xiao Lei really does not understand, cancel the charge such a good thing, but also need to actively communicate with users? 3 to 5 years to toss? My guess is that China Mobile wants to move old package users to the new package, in this way to promote the migration of existing users. However, many of the old packages are far more cost-effective than the new packages, and it is estimated that many people are reluctant to accept the transfer package.
Nowadays, the three major operators are actively promoting users to switch to 5G packages, and many unsatisfactory operations have been made for this purpose. But the 5G package at this stage is really too expensive, compared to the 4G package traffic has not increased, the price has doubled several times. The improvement brought by the 5G package is only a little faster, and this is not obvious to the vast majority of users.
Xiao Lei feels that the operator's package tariff still needs to have a unified standard, otherwise each family has its own standards, and often deducts fees indiscriminately, and users have words of suffering. If you want to popularize 5G more quickly, reducing the package fee must be the most effective means, and I hope that the traffic tariff can be reduced quickly.