Boycott China's 3G, I don't believe you won't reduce the price

I have been looking forward to 3G since before the Spring Festival, but I never expected that the threshold of such high fees would come.

3G has let me down.

China Mobile (Guangdong) lowest tariff standard:

Monthly rental: 98 yuan

Free incoming calls within the province

300 minutes nationwide outgoing and incoming calls package

Excess part local call 0.29 yuan/minute, local long-distance call 0.39 yuan/minute, intra-provincial and inter-provincial roaming call 0.39 yuan/minute

Includes 150M data traffic

Excess part 1 yuan/M

(Tariff is relatively clear)

China Telecom (Shenzhen) lowest tariff standard:

Monthly rental: 9 yuan

Free incoming calls within the province

Local outgoing calls 0.29 yuan/minute (long-distance direct dialing surcharge 0.07 yuan/6 seconds)

Outgoing calls from other places 0.49 yuan/minute all-inclusive

Inter-provincial incoming calls 0.39 yuan/minute all-inclusive

Intra-provincial mobile Internet access monthly gift 1 hour, excess charged at 0.05 yuan/minute. Inter-provincial mobile Internet access 0.05 yuan/minute

Wireless broadband Internet fee 0.10 yuan/minute

Local family number 0 yuan/month. Local outgoing calls 0.09 yuan/minute (domestic long-distance direct dialing needs an additional charge of 0.07 yuan/6 seconds), intra-provincial outgoing calls 0.29 yuan/minute (all-inclusive)

(Too many packages, still not fully understood yet)

China Unicom lowest tariff standard

Monthly rental: 186 yuan

Domestic voice call duration 510 minutes

Domestic video call duration 20 minutes

Includes 20M (multimedia reading/download unit), 40T (text reading/download unit), 60MB traffic, caller ID, mobile newspaper

Excess domestic voice call fee Nationwide: outgoing calls 0.36 yuan/minute, free incoming calls

Excess domestic roaming fee Outgoing calls 0.6 yuan/minute, incoming calls 0.4 yuan/minute

Excess domestic long-distance fee 0.07 yuan/6 seconds

Mobile Internet data fee 0.01 yuan/KB

Multimedia message 0.9 yuan per message

Multimedia usage fee 1 yuan/M (M is multimedia usage unit)

Text usage fee 0.2 yuan/T (T is text usage unit)

Excess domestic video call basic call fee Outgoing calls 0.9 yuan/minute, free incoming calls

Excess domestic video call roaming fee Outgoing calls 1.2 yuan/minute, incoming calls 0.9 yuan/minute

Excess domestic video call long-distance fee 1.2 yuan/minute

(The fees are not only high, but the billing is also very complicated)

Overall comparison shows none of them are satisfactory, it's still more cost-effective to use 2G.

Currently, I am using Shenzhen Mobile M-Zone's lowest tier which includes a short number (5 yuan) and GPRS (10 yuan), with monthly costs under 150 yuan. I've never used up the 300M data.

Comments:

The cost of the 3G network is much higher than 2G, and the network is just in trial use, so resources are indeed not as good as 3G. Setting a certain threshold for restriction makes sense, but isn't this threshold too high?

Actually, with my current phone (a PPC phone supporting EGPRS), I can already achieve a download speed of 23K/S, and I am quite satisfied with it. My colleague uses a 188 number (also a PPC phone), but the fastest speed he gets is no more than 50K/S, and often uses the 2G network. I don't understand why there are so few places where 3G can be used.

To completely transition from 2G to 3G, there must be some advantages over 2G. With the current network speed and coverage, regardless of price, it's not very satisfying. By this time next year, I estimate that at least 99% of people using mobile phones will still be using 2G. This can be confirmed by the 3G usage rate in other countries.

Of course, as the largest mobile phone consumer country, everything is possible. Unless we make 3G affordable for consumers.

If everyone does not use 3G, the operation of the network will be empty profit, then setting up the 3G network will be wasteful. The three operators will inevitably fight for customers to pull profits. In China, low-cost means sales. Just like the low fees achieved through price wars between Mobile and Unicom in the past, it benefits the common people, but at the same time, the operators also make money.

Resist using 3G, let the three major operators figure out whether they want to earn from high-income groups or low-consumption ones.