How much will the operator's 1G traffic fee be reduced to?

Can you bear not going online? Obviously not, because everyone can’t live without the Internet. Therefore, everyone wants the Internet traffic to be as cheap as possible.

According to the data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to November 2017, the mobile Internet access traffic reached 212 trillion GB, a year-on-year increase of 158.2%, and the average traffic per household was 2449 MB, a year-on-year increase of 150.9%. According to public data, the data reported by the Henan Provincial Communications Administration showed that in 2017, the Internet traffic of mobile phone users in Henan Province was 1340.07 million GB, ranking fourth in the country; the average monthly traffic of mobile Internet users was 2.8 GB, a growth rate of 189%. China Unicom's data also showed that the average traffic of mobile phone users increased from 380 MB/household at the end of 2015 to about 3 GB/household in October 2017.

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This is not only true in China, but also in the world. Mobile data traffic is growing rapidly. According to GlobalData's latest report, in 2017, European consumers consumed an average of 2.4GB of mobile data per SIM card per month. Among Europeans, Finns ranked first in data consumption, using an average of 13.3GB per SIM card, which is more than double the runner-up Austrians (5.7GB). Poland (3.7GB) and Russia (3.5GB) also ranked high in mobile data usage.

Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the ten major events of 2017, which showed that the average mobile Internet traffic charge in China has dropped to 26 yuan/GB, but in fact, the actual price offered by operators is already far lower than this.

On November 24, 2017, Shang Bing, Chairman of China Mobile, pointed out in his speech at the 5th China Mobile Global Partner Conference that China Mobile's mobile Internet data charges have dropped by 68% since 2015. China Unicom also announced that as of October 2017, the average unit price of data traffic has dropped by 70% compared with 2016.

Many people should have an intuitive feeling that in 2014, mobile Internet traffic was about 100 yuan per GB. In 2015, it was about 10 yuan per GB. By 2017, the unit price of traffic of many operators had actually dropped to 3 yuan per GB.

Is there a lower price? Of course there is. The following package is 2 yuan per GB. In order to compete for the group customers of competitors, local operators have tried every possible means.

Operators continue to lower prices, on the one hand to cater to the needs of the people, and on the other hand to meet the needs of competition. However, this kind of price reduction also requires considerable sacrifice and is not necessarily a gain.

In the United States, Verizon launched a special data traffic package in 2017, and T-Mobile quickly launched a lower-priced package. AT&T followed suit two weeks later, and Sprint even launched a package that gave new users a year of free traffic. The price cuts for traffic led to a significant reduction in network speed. The most embarrassing thing is that in August, AT&T and Verizon's 4G speeds reached historical highs, 12.1 Mbps and 14.4 Mbps respectively. On the contrary, Sprint, which had the biggest price cut, averaged 11.8 Mbps in November, 2 Mbps faster than in February, consolidating its leading position.