Cui Yongyuan apologizes for the phone bill incident, still insists that domestic call rates are expensive (photo)

The other day, Cui Yongyuan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), criticized at a group discussion meeting that domestic mobile phone charges were "ridiculously expensive", taking the example that mobile phone fees in Los Angeles, the United States were 9.9 US dollars per year. Subsequently, many netizens left messages saying that Cui's cited data was inaccurate and foreign call charges were not as low as he said. After verification, Cui admitted the misuse of data and apologized on Weibo in the first time. Yesterday afternoon, Cui Yongyuan was interviewed by a reporter from our newspaper. He sincerely apologized for his "rash words", but said that his move was not to please the crowd. Cui insisted that the new data he mastered still proved that the US call fee was much cheaper than that in China, and "the domestic call fee was still high".