Coquettish Rebirth

Thinking of this, Jia Hongjian of course began to direct China Satellite TV to act. ?. .To take action, of course, we must first collect evidence and materials in various aspects.First of all, Jia Hongjian suddenly discovered that such a telecom company had already gone public in the United States in 4!And now that Telecom relies on the performance they have earned from their near-monopoly position in China, the stock price is really good!As for mobile companies, they are also listed in the United States, and in the past four years, China Mobile has entered the era of mobile phones with their soaring performance and China's large batches. The performance of China Mobile has really soared!After their stock price reached 33 US dollars, the overall market value suddenly surpassed Vodafone, the world's number one mobile operator!Their annual turnover is 8 million yuan, and the pre-tax profit is more than 9 million yuan. Calculated, the profit rate directly exceeds 3%!

As for telecommunications, they don't have any mobile services, and because overall such a fixed line is also divided by China Railcom a lot, but because they are stubborn and don't relax long-distance charges and monthly fees, so in 3 years , Their turnover is 16 billion RMB, and their pre-tax income is more than 6 million RMB!What kind of income situation is this?To be honest, if he didn't beat them, Jia Hongjian would feel sorry for the people all over the country!Because their business income and pre-tax income are really people's fat and people's anointing, and they are really the money they plundered from the pockets of ordinary people by relying on their monopoly position!If we in China had the same prices as those in the United States, Jia Hongjian would not believe that Telecom's income and profits could be so high!Of course, it seems that the income of telecommunications is low, so there is no way to better reinvest in production.There is no way to lay all kinds of equipment all over the country.But the problem is that on the fixed network, there is no good investment in this telecom, right?The number of fixed-line users in China is estimated to be less than 3 million in the early part of 4 million, right?After all, according to the average number of households in China, there are 3 people in a household, right? 4 One fixed-line subscriber, that is 1 million people.Even counting various industry users.But there are still many people who don't use landline phones!So in the end, almost China's fixed network is capped at 4 million.In such a case, what is the good investment in telecom?As far as the current technological trend is concerned, the fixed-line telephone network invested by China Telecom in the past has basically been maintained, and the new one can use optical fiber to learn from China Railway Communications to make IP phones.Originally, China Telecom had to invest in the construction of optical fiber networks in such an era, so they don't need to spend money on the construction of fixed networks, right?

On the other hand, from a historical point of view.This telecom earns tens of billions of profits every year. Except for the ones handed over to the country, I haven't seen how fast they have increased the speed of the domestic network!Although China is a big country, the Internet speed in China is similar to that in the United States.But what are the Internet charges in the United States?What are the Internet charges in China?Of course, from a certain point of view, the Internet fee in the United States is also divided into cities.The Internet fee in places like New York is extremely expensive, several times more expensive than in China, but in some "rural" places, the price is really similar to or even slightly lower than in China!When people set up network cables or something over there, the labor costs are still calculated in US dollars.That's all based on the cost of manpower in the United States.China's assumption here is based on China's labor costs.It is not impossible to produce optical fibers in China, and the final cost must be cheaper than that in the United States, right?As a result, the charges for fixed-line networks in the United States are much cheaper than those in China, and the overall network charges may be slightly more expensive than in China.But people also survived.All costs here in China are lower than others. Logically speaking, this telecom should be able to make money based on the fees charged by later generations of networks.And earn a lot!Why is this telecom not letting go of the monthly rent?This is quite puzzling!Why are they charging so much for landline calls?This is definitely unreasonable!

Such a program was produced quite quickly. After more than a week of data collection, Jia Hongjian and the others were surprised to find that mobile telecommunications service providers such as China Mobile also seemed to have a monthly fee setting—in some areas that There is also a guaranteed minimum consumption when applying for a card!Some are even as high as 7 yuan a month!After this year, how many billions are there!After collecting enough information, Jia Hongjian's special program will of course be broadcast!Also on a weekend night in July, Yuan Ming of China Satellite TV came out again and hosted such a special program on social supervision.

"Hello, viewers, today we are meeting with you again on China Satellite TV's news investigation special program. Today we are going to pay attention to the issue of telecommunications service charges that are closely related to everyone's daily life. From the perspective of telecommunications in a broad sense, China's China Telecom China Mobile, China Unicom, China Railcom, etc. are companies that provide telecommunications services. In the past few years, China's telecommunications companies have experienced fierce price wars, especially between China Mobile and China Unicom, as well as between China Telecom and China Unicom. Among China Railcom, there have been tit-for-tat confrontations in terms of user snatching and price, and vicious gang fights have even occurred in some places. According to the data of relevant departments, within a year since 1998, the number of vicious Internet incidents reported to the department Up to 4 cases, an average of more than 3 cases a year, once every 4-[-] days, accumulatively affecting at least [-] million benevolent users in China. So in such a fierce market competition, whether their tariffs have been paid Is it enough discount and enough convenience?"

"Let's take a look at the situation of the US telecom industry as a control group first. The mobile communication industry in the US telecom industry adopts the policy of the same price for the entire network. Not only does it have no roaming charges, but even domestic long-distance charges. It only costs 1.67 cents per minute, which is 14 yuan per minute, from the United States to China, while it costs 8 yuan per minute to call from China to the United States. In terms of this long-distance transoceanic service, the price of Chinese telecom companies is quite high. It is more than 6 times higher than the market price of American companies. We are very curious about what causes Chinese consumers to pay so much more, so our reporter interviewed the heads of several communication companies. Please watch the video for the specific interview scene... ..."

As he said that, as soon as the camera turned, it was time for a reporter from China Satellite TV to interview the CEO of China Telecom.As a result, after asking why overseas long-distance is so expensive, the boss of this telecom immediately said that he had a meeting to hold and was temporarily unavailable.After he escaped in this way, reporters from China Satellite TV searched and searched, and many people who could be responsible made various excuses for not answering. In the end, they could only find a director in the office of the China Telecom Headquarters to answer.As for the director, when he was facing the camera lens, he was nervously talking about how much investment they had made in telecommunications, and the high charges now were entirely due to the large investment before.It is said that because the United States is a commercial country, there are many long-distance calls abroad from their fixed-line telephone network.Therefore, they can make small profits but sell more, and they can recover their investment by running more people every year.But it’s different in China. There are very few overseas phone calls in China, so the transoceanic network invested by China can only recover the investment with a small number of consumers.It's like a highway with only 1 people running and a road with 100 million people running, the charging standard must be different...

In this regard, a reporter from China Satellite TV directly asked the director of China Telecom—"Then why can't we use more advanced IP telephony technology? Since there are already two cross-sea optical cables between China and the United States, and this is still not enough." Even if Huaxia Hi-Tech has pulled such an optical cable, under such circumstances, can it open up a little bit of bandwidth for the communication between China and the United States, which is not much? In this way, can it be close to the investment and cost? to provide consumers with cheap overseas phone service?" Faced with such a question, the director was at a loss for words, and he didn't know how to answer it!In the end, he could only answer, "Then we can't let China Telecom bear the investment in the fixed-line network of overseas telephone calls? Is it necessary to recover the cost of this investment, or else it will be a loss of state-owned assets..." But The problem is, if the state-owned investment is to be withdrawn in this way, the common people will have to pay more than they would have otherwise paid, and more than 6 times more money to pay for telecommunications?

Such an answer is the answer from the telecommunications side, while the answer from China Mobile and China Unicom to such a matter is even more vague, and some even push such a matter to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, saying so The price was determined by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and they followed the regulations... Ha, if the higher-ups find out about this, they must be scolded to death!Where is the responsibility thrown up?This is only a problem of long-distance transoceanic, and the next issue of monthly rent, various long-distance charges and so-called roaming charges will cause headaches for companies such as China Mobile, China Unicom and even China Telecom.The reporters Jia Hongjian sent out asked such sharp questions that the companies felt that they had no way to answer them!For a problem like roaming charges, which are almost costless, why should they charge an extra sum of money?How do they explain this?They can only explain it from various fixed investment aspects!

But such an explanation makes them even more shameless! )