Cancellation of caller ID fee, the operator may want to be more proactive

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reportedly replied to a netizen's message about "when the caller ID fee can be abolished" on the People's Daily Online "Leadership Message Board" that the caller ID fee is not priced by the government and currently exists only in some of the old packages that have not been relocated and have been discontinued, accounting for less than 2% of the users, and that the caller ID fee will be gradually abolished within three to five years. Caller ID charges? Many people may not have heard of this charge, but it really exists in people's daily lives, but its reasonableness has been questioned. On the one hand, with the development of communication technology, the service cost of Caller ID has been very low, and some operators in China have also included it in their packages, so it is obviously not appropriate to continue to charge separately. On the other hand, the quality of caller ID service is in doubt. For example, in reality, many fraudulent calls are made in various vests to harass users, and in this process, the information disclosed in the caller ID is often inaccurate, but the carriers almost never take responsibility for this. The actual fact is that many fraudulent calls are made to harass users with various vests. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's statement has given many people hope that this charge will be completely abolished. Of course, people also hope that this time period can be shorter. In 2014, the country liberalized all telecom service tariffs and implemented market adjustment. In other words, the government cannot intervene too much in the process of abolishing the caller ID fee, which is one of the reasons why the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has stated that it will be phased out in three to five years. From an operational point of view, the impact of the abolition of the caller ID fee on the revenue of operators is actually not significant. For one, since 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has been promoting telecommunication companies to stop charging additional fees and the migration of existing users. Secondly, the technology and service cost of incoming caller ID are not high at present. Therefore, no matter which way you look at it, it is better to cancel the caller ID fee sooner rather than later. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has now explicitly stated that it will gradually abolish the caller ID fee, so the three major carriers might as well act as soon as possible and take the initiative to implement the requirements of "speed and tariff reduction" to benefit the people in a practical manner. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)