At a State Council press conference on Monday, China’s top mobile carriers—China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom—announced plans to abolish inter-province roaming fees that have long dogged mobile users.
The plan will go into effect by October and include discount pricing schemes for businesses. These changes are an effort to increase consumer spending while cutting corporate operating expenses.
So will this affect you? Honestly, probably not.
How many of you use your China phone for anything other than WeChat and the occasional confirmation call from waimai?
As reported by Sixth Tone, many young people are similarly unimpressed with the changes. Roaming cuts may have been useful in 2000, six years after the fees were put in place, but now, lower data rates are far more applicable to the majority of mobile phone users.
Unless you’re used to calling your Shanghai auntie every day when you travel around the country, the plan is all but pointless.
Countrywide free wifi, though: now we’re talking.
Hey Chinese mobile carriers, can you hear me now?
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