You clearly have a 4G phone, but the operator still wants you to sign up for a 5G package?

According to data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, as of the end of August, a total of approximately 350 million 5G mobile phones had been sold in China.

According to data from the three major operators, as of the end of August, China Telecom had 146.62 million 5G package users, China Unicom had 129.061 million 5G package users, and China Mobile had 304.145 million 5G package customers, totaling approximately 580 million.

Subtracting these two figures from each other, it is equivalent to 350 million 5G mobile phones supporting 580 million 5G packages. That is to say, at least 230 million users do not have 5G mobile phones but have activated 5G packages.

In fact, many netizens have also experienced the "aggressive" sales promotion of operators, which is to ask you to sign up for a 5G package and tell you that the data traffic is larger, the speed is faster, and it is more enjoyable to use.

If you say that you have a 4G phone, not a 5G phone, customer service will also persuade you to apply for a 5G package, telling you that if you activate a 5G package on a 4G phone, the speed will be faster and there will be more data, which is cost-effective.

But in fact, we know that 4G mobile phones cannot actually play the speed of 5G. Many people may ask, why is the Internet speed faster when a 4G mobile phone has a 5G package? This is because the 4G speed is limited. After the 5G package is signed up, the 4G speed limit may be lifted, so the Internet speed is a little faster.

So why do operators know that you have a 4G phone and they certainly know that a 4G phone cannot reach the speed of 5G, so why do they still ask you to activate a 5G package?

Of course it is for their own interests, and this interest can be viewed from two aspects. One is to recover the construction costs.

We know that the cost of 5G construction is too high. There are many base stations, and the cost of building base stations is also high. At the same time, the base stations consume a lot of electricity. If everyone does not use 5G packages and still uses 4G, then what about the operators' 5G construction costs? Therefore, they naturally try every means to get everyone to use 5G.

The second is that when everyone uses 5G, 4G base stations can be reduced, which can reduce operating costs. For example, by reducing 4G, 3G, 2G and other base stations, operating costs will be reduced. At the same time, the spectrum can be re-cultivated for 5G, etc., which is better.

That’s why operators will try every possible means to get you to use 5G, whether you have a 4G phone or a 5G phone, and let you use it first. But to be honest, this approach is really unfair.