Three Mobile Phone Operators Compete for New Year's Offer

The Spring Festival is coming soon. Presumably you must be full of anticipation, prepare new year goods, share family happiness with your family, or plan your trip, and take a long vacation to visit a foreign country. It is absolutely necessary to send greetings and wishes to relatives and friends for the first time. In recent years, the New Year has become the mainstream through SMS, telephone calls, and online video. No matter where you are, a phone call or a text message can always send you sincere blessings. At this time, the charges for domestic calls and international roaming, and the smoothness of the Internet have attracted the attention of mobile phone users.

How to meet the needs of users during the journey, to communicate smoothly during the long holidays, the three major operators have preferential tariffs and caring services, Southern Reporter will introduce you to all kinds of money Raiders.

[roaming articles]

China Mobile cut its international roaming charges for the New Year. From February, China Mobile launched new roaming tariffs for 180 popular countries and regions such as the United States, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. When Chinese mobile users roam to 180 countries and regions, the number of main calls was as low as RMB 0.99. / Minute, maximum no more than 3 yuan / minute.

According to a comparison of reporters, taking popular tourist destinations as an example, at present, Chinese mobile users roam to India and use mobile phones. The charge for dialing back to mainland China is 22.99 yuan per minute, and the number of calls received is 5.99 yuan per minute. From February, users dial back to China in India, only 2.99 yuan / minute, answering only 2.99 yuan / minute, which means that the call to save 20 yuan per minute, answering also save 3 yuan.

Domestic roaming is more affordable, and China Mobile has launched the “Homecoming Gift Package”. Users only need to pay 2 yuan per month to enjoy 3 months of long-distance and roaming 0.1 yuan / minute of ultra-low discount rates.

The newly launched Tianyi International Card of China Telecom recently opened 267 international roaming countries and regions, calling Singapore and Japan as low as RMB 0.99 per minute. Domestic users have the “Spring Festival Roaming Promotions 2013” ​​activity. Tianyi users send the SMS content “KTCJ” to 10001, and they can enjoy 200M national internet traffic every month in January and February 2013, and enjoy national Roaming calls are free. Roaming callers need only 0.18 yuan per minute for domestic calls.

A telecom source said: "China Telecom will reduce roaming charges for Hong Kong, China, a popular tourist destination, on the occasion of the Spring Festival. Specifically, telecommunications subscribers need only 0.79 yuan per minute for dialing back to the mainland in Hong Kong and they will receive 0.3 yuan per minute for calls. The return text in the Mainland is 0.19 yuan per article."

China Unicom is mainly targeting domestic roaming. “For domestic roaming charges, from December 20, 2012 to February 15, 2013, regardless of the city, 2G users can enjoy a 5-minute package of 100-minute packages for local and remote calls. In addition, Unicom 3G users Answering the call is free, and the call is 0.15 yuan/minute. The user can dial 10010 to deal with it directly.” said China Unicom personnel.

[Online articles]

"Rapid Internet access for the Spring Festival" is China Mobile's launch of new package promotions, including WLA N and G PR S functions. Since 2013, China Mobile's WLA N customers have been granted a one-hour WLA N free time in the province each month. The standard tariff in the WLA N province is 0.01 yuan/minute, which is equivalent to “1 yuan 100 minutes” and outside the province is 0.05 yuan/minute. At the same time, China Mobile launched the G PRS overlay package. "In order to facilitate the user's increase in G PRS traffic during the Spring Festival, we have introduced a 2 yuan, 3 yuan, and 5 yuan overlay package, respectively increase the 5M, 10M, 30M traffic." Mobile personnel introduction.

“China Telecom has specially launched the 'Autonomous Convergence Package' event to welcome the Spring Festival, combining the benefits of broadband, mobile phones, and fixed lines. Users can enjoy multiple benefits at one time.” The telecoms staff introduced to reporters. It is reported that only 189 yuan per month, you can enjoy 4M broadband Internet access, mobile phones and fixed lines in the package to play each other for free, free mobile phone calls up to 240 minutes, giving 400M flow. In addition there are 12M 229 yuan / month, 20M 249 yuan / month, 100M 489 yuan / month three packages for the user to choose.

China Unicom followed suit, launching data roaming day packages for 37 countries and regions such as the United States and 3G and 2G postpaid users, and a “66-day data roaming day package” with a tariff reduction of up to 85%. The reporter understands that China Unicom will provide roaming users in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other places with 70 yuan/day for 20M traffic, 170 yuan/month for 60M traffic, and 370 yuan for 160M traffic. At the same time, for Japan, South Korea, Thailand and other countries and regions to launch 66 yuan / day package 60M traffic package. The most intimate is that users apply for data packages, as long as there is no traffic outside the country, do not charge package fees, and China Unicom provides users to automatically send a free SMS reminder service for each use of 10M B traffic outside the country, allowing users to understand the consumer More confidence.

[purchase articles]

China Mobile’s “Value-added Mobile Phone New Year” campaign launched several mobile phones, including the Tianyu T 619 Little Hornet, Cool 80 10, and Huawei Y 220t. According to reports, the package price is mostly 299-999 yuan, many can enjoy the "0 yuan purchase", that is, package fees are all transferred to calls. "The popular Samsung GA LA XYN oteII mobile customized version N 7108, the original price is 5899 yuan, only need to pay 5399 yuan will be able to get mobile phones, purchase costs are all transferred to mobile phone bills, to achieve a '0 yuan purchase', the Spring Festival use It was very faceful." Mr. Li, who purchased the mobile phone, said in an interview with reporters.

China Telecom New Year's main iPhone5 purchase discount. This purchase discount has five characteristics: First, the iPhone5 package contains more Internet traffic. The second is that in each package, a certain amount of W iFi duration will be presented. This is a unique offer of China Telecom. The third is the free handling of deputy cards: friends and relatives can share the same premium package, sharing calls, the length of the Internet and various benefits. Fourth, the flow exceeds the automatic upgrade. Fifth, lower entry barriers: The lowest price of the package is only 49 yuan.

China Unicom set off the first climax of the Spring Festival purchase and launched more than 20 well-known brand Wo 3G smart phone promotions. Among them, the Cool 7290, Hisense U 950 and other seven 4.5-inch screen dual-core mobile phone contract price from 1599 yuan discount to 1399 yuan, 0 yuan purchase" threshold from 126 yuan / month to 96 yuan / month. "This means that If users want to purchase any of the seven models of handsets, they only need to spend 1,399 yuan to join the corresponding contract plan, and choose a 96 yuan/month package file to achieve '0 yuan purchase'. 1399 yuan will be returned in the form of call charges to the user in the contract month. "China Unicom personnel, at the same time, Huawei G 330D, Lenovo A 789 and other 6 4.0-inch screen dual-core custom terminal contract package price from the previous 1399 yuan discount to 1199 yuan. In addition, some 3.5-inch screen mobile phones, such as Cool 7019A, Tianyu W 619 and other six terminal customized machine contract price is even more bargain-hunting, for the first time to 699 yuan, a record low.