China Mobile and China Unicom have reached a handshake agreement that mobile phone charges will be transferred without distinction within or outside the network

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China Mobile and China Unicom have reached a handshake agreement that mobile phone charges will be transferred without distinction within or outside the network [Copy link]

"The differential pricing of voice services within and outside the network between mobile operators will be cancelled." Yesterday, the reporter learned of this explosive news from a reliable source. According to the reporter, China Mobile Group and China Unicom Group both issued a document entitled "Notice on the Issue of In-Network Discounts for Voice Services on Mobile Networks" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which clearly stipulates that the in-network discounts will be extended to the other party's network, and a specific timetable for the implementation of this "Notice" is given: stop sales on July 1, propose a rectification plan before August 1, and complete the cleanup work before the end of October. However, all this does not apply to value-added services such as SMS.

　　Reconciliation Timetable

　　[July 1] The reporter learned that in the "Notice", the two major mobile operators reached a "July 1 Agreement", "Starting from July 1, 2005, stop selling voice services with peer settlement operators with inconsistent per-minute rates and packages within the network (including within the brand) and between networks, and implement consistent rates instead."

　　That is to say, starting from July, there will be no problem of differential pricing of voice services within and outside the network in the rates and packages sold to the market.

　　[August 1] Regarding the packages that have been launched with differential pricing within and outside the network, the "Notice" has another agreement: "For users who have developed preferential voice service within the network (including within the brand), the preferential scope will be gradually expanded to peer settlement operators." For

　　the preferential users that have been developed, the two parties have given a specific rectification requirement: "Each branch company shall propose a specific cleanup and rectification plan and implementation steps for the existing preferential users within the voice service network (including within the brand) on the basis of maintaining the current tariff level."

　　[October 1] The deadline for completing "the expansion of the preferential scope of existing voice service within the network and within the brand to peer settlement operators at the same time": All "cleanup work shall be completed by the end of October 2005 in principle."

　　In other words, in principle, mobile operators in various regions will fully solve the problem of differential pricing within and outside the network by the end of October, and the differential pricing of voice services within and outside the network will be completely eliminated by the end of October.