Today (August 7th), the media reported on the status quo of telecom operators' speeding efforts to reduce fees and fees under the urging of relevant departments. According to the report, after the three major operators of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom canceled the traffic “roaming” fee on July 1, some consumers were repeatedly harassed by the customer service phone called “package marketing”, and the dazzling tariff package often made consumers fooled. More, benefit less.

Obviously, for telecom operators, the most direct, most trouble-free, and most immediate speed-up and reduction is to increase the traffic and talk time in the existing consumer-selected packages, or directly announce the unit price of unit flow and unit talk time. The magnitude of the decline. However, almost all telecom operators have been simplistic and complicated, and they have dealt with the package according to the original routine. However, these so-called packages are actually more important to deal with the institutions that order them to speed up the fee reduction - if they do not treat consumers as blind.

It is not easy for China's major telecom operators to guard the world's largest telecom consumer market. Hello, my good, the result of making money together is that several major telecom operators have entered the list of the world's most powerful telecom operators. This result is certainly not bad for telecom operators. However, it is precisely this result that for Chinese consumers, it means that if they want to enjoy the same quality of service as consumers in competitive markets, they can only be illusory. Only the price formed under the conditions of full market competition is the real price.

Of course, the price under regulation, even if it is intended to benefit consumers, is often difficult to achieve. It is said that the marketing routine mentioned in the above report, the various packages trapped in the dark pit of the consumer, the experts of the regulatory authorities have counted, have you found the routine? If you are indifferent to the telecom operators' routines, or even happy with this result, it will be listed as performance performance, which is contrary to the feelings of consumers.

In fact, among the existing packages that the existing telecommunications consumers have selected, there are very few consumers who use up or over-utilize the package tariffs in full, and the actual fees used by quite a few consumers are even less than half of the agreed rates. This means that a large amount of unrealized usage fees are deposited in each unit-settled package. This part of the tariff is reasonably and legally incorporated into the bag by the telecom operator. This is the huge amount of money that can be accumulated or discounted in the consumer accounts of many foreign telecom operators. The public has never seen the telecom operators disclose, and they have never seen any opinions from the regulatory authorities. No disclosure, no statement, this is the root cause of telecom operators to enjoy the package.

Not to mention the cost reduction caused by technological progress, not to mention the increase in the marginal benefits brought about by the expansion of the market scale, let alone let the profit cut, the so-called speed-up and fee reduction, in terms of cost, it is actually only the consumers themselves are not used, unknown A small portion of the fee charged by the package contract is returned to the consumer. It’s just from the above reports that even if it’s such a “return”, telecom operators are also unwilling to change their minds, not only do not return, but also to obtain more, as if the speed-up fee has brought new opportunities for making money. .

The above reports describe the various gimmicks that telecom operators have made in the name of speed-up and fee reduction. These marketing gimmicks naturally do not bring real benefits to consumers, but they bring real harassment and troubles. In this regard, telecom operators have also said that, as the report quoted "a person involved in a telecom operation enterprise", "the telecom operation system is huge and complex, and canceling the traffic roaming fee and canceling the long-distance fee requires sufficient time for the modification of the settlement system." . For such an excuse, consumers are more and only speechless. It’s not a word, it’s not stopping thinking. If it is to slow down the fee, will the operator's actions be so slow, and will it come up with some altruistic packages that will be promoted and lowered, and will there be any reason to push the three resistances?

One thing should not be forgotten that consumers will take advantage of their own interests in the market, and ultimately rely on the market. Supervision must also borrow the power of this hand.