Traffic is undoubtedly the most tangled thing for everyone to use with their mobile phones. No one can do without them, but every month needs to pay for the bling of money, especially for the various settings of operators.
For example, traffic will be divided into local traffic and national traffic. The former is cheap but often used. The latter is rarely enough but expensive. Some people even deduct national traffic and then deduct local traffic.
In particular, voice roaming charges will soon be cancelled. Why does traffic roam? The price of the country is so much better.
The explanations provided by the three major operators are similar. They all mean that the local network resources are not balanced and there are differences in traffic consumption. In order to avoid confusion, local traffic and national general traffic can only be distinguished.
In this regard, senior industry analyst @ communication Lao Liu also made some in-depth interpretation, let's take a look.
First, operators need to adapt to local conditions
When 3G/4G was just launched, operators' standard packages were actually nationally unified. They were all national packages and the prices were the same. However, this is not "fair". For example, the economy of Beishangguang has a good income, and the packages are also acceptable. The less developed regions in the central and western regions will not succeed.
In addition, operators are hierarchically managed. The head office of the group is divided into branches of provinces (municipalities/autonomous regions), and then goes to the local market to pin their own products and policies according to the specific conditions of each place, especially local special services.
As a result, there have been 3G, 4G national packages (traffic nationwide), intra-provincial packages (privileged traffic can only be used within the province), city packages (privileged traffic can only be used in this city).
Second, prevent the phone card nationwide disorder
After the cancellation of the voice roaming fee, there is no difference between the local user and the customer anywhere in the country, but at the operator level, the mobile number is still managed by the sub-region.
In doing so, it can effectively regulate the business development of operators around the country and facilitate the statistics of their performance. This is determined by the operator's management system.
Under such a system, mobile phone cards around the country are not allowed to go around the country. Otherwise, the management will be chaotic. The existence of long-distance and roaming is also to avoid string cards.
If traffic roaming is also canceled, it will become national traffic, and cards in cheap areas will go to expensive places, which will lead to the imbalance of business development among operators, infighting, and unfavorable service improvement. .
So, will traffic "roaming" be cancelled in the future?
The answer is yes, but it is expected to take two to three years.
In 2014-2016, the average traffic prices of various operators have fallen by more than 60%. In the future, as national packages and traffic packages are further reduced, they can meet the needs of users in most areas. When there is no difference between local and national traffic, it is natural. There will be no more traffic roaming.
