Cell Phones Roaming Fee in China

July 7, 2009 - PRLog -- Are you cell phones users in China? How do you think of Chinese roaming fee? Nowadays, cell phone could be bought at very low prices, as we have a wealth of shopping channels like China wholesale electronics sellers and retailers. But the money we spend on using this modern gadget is huge, especially for those who travel frequently inside this country. The following are the comparison between America and China.

America
No roaming fee, even for the long distance call.
China Mainland
Call - charged 0.6 RMB per minute for making calls, 0.4 RMB for receiving calls outside their local service area.
Text message fee - the same no matter in the local area or not, 10 cents per message.

Obviously, Americans could save much more money than Chinese. Why couldn’t China cancel the fee? A Chinese telecom expert concluded the following two reasons:

1. Our telecom business is still not adequately mature. The economic development is not equal between China east and west. The east develops very fast, so the equipment utilization rate is high and the unit communication fee is low. But the west is on the contrary. In order to ensure high income of western telecom, the company has to restrict mass use of eastern people’s phone in the western area.

2. Telecom company wants to help western-area company accumulate funds quickly and develop their business, so they separate telecom markets in different areas in China.

Most Chinese combat such kind of fee, as the cost of the roaming fee is nearly zero. Chinese telecom company, a state-operated company, has made big improvement these years, especially in the year of 2009. Now, we could see the dawn of hope of canceling the roaming fee.

China Telecom is the first to try to cancel the roaming fee. Let’s see its telecom policy in Jiang Su Province. From 1st, May, you will receive calls for free no matter where you are in the province. The calling to other cities province-wide belong to long-distance call. However, this service could only be used by the Tiyi Cell phone users who have booked my e home packages of E6 and E9.

I hope I don’t need to pay the roaming fee one day no matter where I am in China and what package I use on my cell-phone.

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