Competition between China Mobile and China Telecom has intensified, and both operators have begun to launch low-priced ultra-large data packages, but these packages will not be available to existing 5G users, but only quietly promoted to 4G users who have not yet switched to 5G packages, which is obviously unfair.
In October, China Mobile quietly launched a 29 yuan data card package with 30GB, and recently China Telecom also launched a 29 yuan data card with 100GB traffic, 100GB traffic is divided into 30GB directional traffic and 70GB general traffic, which shows that the two operators have quietly launched a traffic price war.
China's carrier market has basically become a competition between China Mobile and China Telecom, and the gap between China Unicom and these two operators is widening day by day. In the 4G era, China Unicom and China Telecom launched a fierce price war, which once led to a net loss of users in China Mobile, and in desperation, China Mobile also followed up with the traffic price war in 2018, resulting in a decline in performance of China Mobile and China Telecom.
Since the commercial 5G in 2019, operators have briefly reached a tacit agreement and did not start a traffic price war, and the price of 5G packages is set at more than 100 yuan, but after nearly 3 years of development, China Mobile again had a net loss of 240,000 users in April this year, and China Mobile also had a net loss of 790,000 users in October, while China Telecom has maintained a steady growth momentum, which naturally makes China Mobile unable to sit still, quietly launched a 29 yuan package.
Of course, China Telecom will not let China Mobile be alone, and it is reasonable to follow up the launch of low-cost and large-data packages, after all, everyone is worried about the loss of their users, but operators are worried about the loss of profits, these packages are estimated that existing 5G users can not enjoy - existing 5G users go to the business hall to ask if there will be such a low-cost package, only those 4G users receive operator customer service calls to get, this is the old is not as good as the new.
The number of mobile phone users in China has exceeded 1.6 billion, more than 200 million more than 1.4 billion people, the demographic dividend has disappeared, and most of the new users that operators compete for are from competitors, so they can only give more discounts to new users to grab competitors' customers.
In the past, operators would often give users recharge discounts, but now operators have little or no recharge discounts, and users who have switched to 5G packages apply to operators to reduce the package There is almost no great possibility, and can only be forced to accept the existing high-priced package.
Operators dare to treat old users like this, because old users attach great importance to the number that has been used for many years, these mobile phone numbers are often bundled with the user's bank card, mobile payment, Internet various accounts, easily dare not abandon, so that these old users are tied to the far away operators, since the operator does not need to be afraid of these users leaving, of course, they are not willing to give old users discounts.
It is precisely for these reasons that operators can not give old users preferential treatment in the presence of the old gods, anyway, you can't run away, but only give new users discounts, so no matter how dissatisfied old users are, they have no choice but to slaughter me for fish and meat.
In the face of the operator's harsh attitude towards old users, many old users have expressed dissatisfaction, after the operator launched the number porting network, 60 million users have been ported, but the network transfer is too troublesome, after the network transfer will not receive bank text messages, so many old users can only verbally complain, can only continue to endure the operator's high-priced packages.