Flat incoming call rate not offered in Shanghai
9/4/2003 14:56
Shanghai Mobile and Shanghai Unicom will not follow moves in Guangzhou
to offer incoming calls for a flat monthly rate, but will pay more attention to
improving their services, the Youth Post reported today.
Starting
yesterday, China Mobile users in Guangzhou can receive incoming calls from other
China Mobile users for a flat 20 yuan (US$2.41) monthly charge.
China
Unicom GSM subscribers in Guangzhou can pay 10 yuan a month to receive calls
from other mobile phones, including those serviced by its rival.
"The
Shanghai market is not as competitive as Guangzhou, and Shanghai Mobile cares
more about offering quality services to users, so we will not offer one-way
charging," said the spokesman with Shanghai Mobile yesterday.
"A little
more than 80 percent of subscribers were satisfied with our services last year,
due to quality services," the spokesman said.
The local mobile phone
market is standardized so will not be involved in a price war, said the
spokesman with Shanghai Unicom. "We will pay more attention to value-added CDMA
services on the basis of CDMA1X high-speed transmission technology," he
said.
Guangzhou Mobile and Guangzhou Unicom launched the new policies to
compete with the Little Smart citywide cordless phone service offered by
fixed-line operators China Telecommunications Corp and China Netcom
Communications Group Corp, which charges only for outgoing calls.
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
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