Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Average mobile data tariff dropped by 10%

On May 17, according to media reports, at the 2021 World Telecommunications and Information Society Day Conference, Vice Minister Liu Liehong introduced that since the second half of 2020, with the acceleration of 5G construction and development, the average tariff of mobile network unit traffic has dropped again. 10%.

Earlier, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology proposed that the focus of this year’s network speed and fee reduction work will shift from network coverage to “speed and quality improvement”, and from “inclusive fee reduction” to “precise fee reduction”, including the orderly promotion of 5G networks. On-demand construction and in-depth coverage, and continue to implement precise fee reductions for small and medium-sized enterprises and rural poverty alleviation households.

Liu Liehong said, one is to promote the coordinated development of "dual gigabit" networks. Carry out a wider range of gigabit optical network upgrades and home-based transformations, orderly promote the on-demand construction and in-depth coverage of 5G networks, deepen the co-construction and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, and accelerate the formation of a "dual gigabit" complementary development pattern, Better empower thousands of industries.

The second is to continue to implement precise fee reductions. For small and medium-sized users, the average broadband and dedicated line tariffs are reduced by another 10%; to promote basic telecommunications companies to provide rural poverty-stricken households, and continue to provide 50% discounts on basic communication services; for special groups such as the elderly and the disabled, to introduce tariffs lower than the public market Specific preferential policies.

The third is to improve network and service quality. Regulate network tariff marketing behaviors, and strictly investigate behaviors such as "force pushing 5G packages," "new and old users have different rights," and "package exaggerated publicity".

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