China News Network, May 24 - Xin Guobin, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said today in response to a question about the progress of the speed and fee reduction that for the fee reduction initiatives, especially the full abolition of the work of cell phone domestic long-distance and roaming fees, MIIT has been attaching great importance to the work, and continue to promote the three basic telecom enterprises to speed up the work progress. The three enterprises have carried out a comprehensive deployment, and are now doing their best to promote system transformation and other related preparations in accordance with the goal of early implementation.
The State Council's New Office held a regular briefing on State Council policies on the morning of the 24th, inviting Xin Guobin, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, to introduce the in-depth implementation of "Made in China 2025" and promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and to answer reporters' questions.
A reporter asked: please ask a question about speed reduction, this issue is generally concerned about society. This year's "Government Work Report" also proposed to take greater steps, may I ask how is the progress now?
Xin Guobin responded that, in accordance with the requirements of the "Government Work Report", the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, in conjunction with the relevant departments to take measures to actively promote the implementation of the relevant work. in April, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission jointly issued the "on the implementation of the implementation of in-depth promotion of speed and fee reductions to promote the development of the real economy in 2017 the views of special action", from the increase of investment in telecommunication infrastructure, dig deeper into the potential of the broadband network to reduce fees, and encourage Broadband application integration and innovation, optimize the speed and fee reduction policy environment in four aspects of the 17 tasks and initiatives, the speed and fee reduction work for the whole year to carry out a comprehensive arrangement and deployment.
Xin Guobin then provided a set of data. As of the end of April this year, fixed broadband, China's fixed broadband users reached 315 million, of which fiber optic broadband users reached 250 million, the proportion of fixed broadband users reached 79%, the highest in the world. The average access rate of China's fixed broadband exceeded 50M, more than seven times the rate at the end of 2014, and in just two years, China has made great progress in this regard.
In terms of mobile broadband, the total number of 4G users reached 849 million, accounting for 63 percent of cell phone users, ranking among the world's top. In terms of user usage, the average monthly mobile Internet traffic per user has remained above 1G so far this year, reaching 1.3G in April, more than six times that of 2014.
As for user penetration, according to data just released by the Broadband Development Alliance, China's fixed broadband household penetration rate in the first quarter rose by 3.9 percentage points from the previous quarter to 64.3 percent, and mobile broadband users surpassed the 1 billion mark, with penetration reaching 75.4 percent, another 4.2 percentage points higher than in the previous quarter.
Xin Guobin said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has always attached great importance to the fee reduction initiatives that are of widespread concern, especially the work of comprehensively eliminating domestic long-distance and roaming fees for cell phones. In accordance with the principle of ensuring that the work is put in place, and strive to implement in advance, continue to promote the three basic telecommunications enterprises to accelerate the work progress. It is understood that the three enterprises have been fully deployed after the two meetings, and are now doing their utmost to promote system transformation and other related preparatory work in accordance with the goal of early implementation.
Xin Guobin added that it is not that simply cancel a kind of charge can be, the whole charge is a system, is a system, do any adjustment need to carry out system transformation and networking test, so it involves a lot of work, which hope that consumers can further understand.
Recently, there are media reports that some provincial operators have announced the abolition of domestic long-distance and roaming charges for cell phones from September 1, a month earlier than the original plan to implement. In addition, since May 1, the three telecom companies have significantly reduced the main direction of the international long-distance call tariffs, down to 0.49-0.99 yuan per minute, a drop of nearly 90 percent. In the past, international long-distance call rates were relatively high, but now they have been reduced to less than 1 yuan per minute.
Xin Guobin concluded that the speed reduction in the people's livelihood, improve the sense of access to the masses at the same time, but also in promoting the real economy to enhance the quality of efficiency has played a positive driving effect.
On the one hand, by reducing the cost of Internet access and the provision of comprehensive information technology services, strongly support the development of small and medium-sized micro-enterprises. Since the beginning of this year, telecommunication enterprises have successively lowered the tariffs of dedicated Internet lines by more than 15%, which alone is expected to benefit more than 10 billion yuan this year.
Targeted at industrial parks, "dual-creation" enterprises, telecommunications companies have also launched a variety of special broadband products for all types of innovative main open Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data capabilities for small and medium-sized micro-enterprises through the Internet innovation and entrepreneurship to provide a convenient. For example, some software companies use carrier cloud services instead of self-built IT systems, saving over ten million yuan in information technology costs. There are also some Telematics companies that utilize the one-stop service provided by operators from product development, hardware testing to IOT communication, greatly shortening the cycle of product launching in the market.
On the other hand, the speed reduction also injects new energy into the development of traditional industries, promotes the wide application of "Internet+", and strongly promotes the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. For example, the extensive coverage of the 4G network has supported the hot rise of ****-enabled bicycles. According to statistics, in the first quarter, China's two-wheeled pedal bicycle production increased by 17% year-on-year, many traditional bicycle manufacturers have re-entered the busy production state. It can be said that the "Internet +" application for the bicycle industry has injected new vitality, to promote the transformation and upgrading of this industry plays a very important role.