It’s settled! The “number portability” policy will be implemented nationwide by the end of November

On March 5 this year, the government work report mentioned that this year the average broadband charges for small and medium-sized enterprises will be reduced by another 15%, and the average mobile network traffic charges will be reduced by more than 20%. The "number portability" policy will be implemented nationwide, and package settings will be standardized to make the fee reduction real and clear to consumers.

On the 14th, the meeting determined: 1. By upgrading and reducing the fees of preferential packages, lowering the unit price of non-package traffic, and promoting "floor price" rates for low-income and elderly groups, the average mobile traffic rate will be reduced by more than 20%; 2. "Number portability" will be implemented nationwide before the end of November; 3. The number of packages will be further reduced by more than 15% within the year to solve problems such as large number and difficulty in choosing.

This means that after the Government Work Report proposed to implement number portability across the country before the end of the year, there is a clearer timetable for promoting number portability across the country.

According to domestic media reports, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in an interview recently that China's mobile user scale is huge and the network is complex. Number portability is a complex system project. Not to mention network construction and system upgrades and modifications, there are nearly 10,000 test projects after the construction is completed in each province on average .

The focus and difficulty of the preliminary work of number portability lies in the fact that there are about 4.5 million mobile application apps in my country, and quite a number of them use mobile phone numbers for authentication. This requires not only the number to be transferred, but also the third-party services to be transferred.

At present, many industry text messages and third-party services are able to achieve number portability, but there are indeed a considerable number of third-party apps that cannot keep up. This is also the direction that needs to be worked on during the national promotion stage of number portability.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that with the evolution and upgrading of mobile communication technology and the rapid development of mobile Internet, mobile phone numbers are not only user identifiers for communication services, but are also widely used in Internet services in all walks of life. Changing mobile phone numbers not only requires high time and economic costs, but may also cause property and security risks. This "contradiction" has driven the demand for number portability, so that users can freely choose service providers without changing their "identity".

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