Telecommunications Act Ten Questions

 Ten Questions
world telecommunications law formulated mostly obstructed labor. America's new telecommunications law was formulated in 1996, and the century until the introduction in the late 90's telecommunications laws.
developed market economy countries like this, China is no exception. Since 1980, twenty-three years is difficult since the drafting of the promulgation of many reasons. First, the management system of China telecom industry in a transition period from planned economy to a market economy; Second, relations need to rationalize the market need for cultivation, competition need to develop; Third, the government's reform transition management functions. These all take time and practice. this country controversial.
contained after more than 20 Reform, China's telecommunications industry has finally from the enterprise from the witch hunt, the exclusive dominance of the transition to the current business a separate entity, independent operations, relying on the market, a number of competitive situation, but also faces not for the government to solve many new problems. China's telecommunications market, the need for new rules of the game has been ready to come Telecommunications Act, telecom companies look forward to, telecommunications consumers are hoping for.
telecommunications law should address those important issues? the Journal reporter recently visited the telecom companies, authorities, consumers and the senior members to issues of concern were discussed extensively, for the ten questions are summarized below Jina.
a question: is the market-based mechanism of the Telecommunications Act type or the type of government regulation?
in the system of socialist market economy under the Telecommunications Act, should be market-based mechanisms. At present, China's telecommunications industry, the management system, although the transition to a market economy, but the violation of a market economy law, operators, interconnection charges are determined by the Government.
an engineer of China Telecom Group on the disclosure, fixed telephone and mobile phone interconnection between the computational cost per minute has reached 0.17 yuan, but the current Government to formulate settlement costs only 6 cents per minute, which is very unfair.
last reporter to interview China Mobile Group Company of any corporate Cooperation Minister Ko, director of interoperability work he was when he told reporters that the government regulation type system, to support emerging enterprises to support the Government made some asymmetric price controls, such as telecommunications operators unfair settlement equal interconnection fees, but the government does not take into account when business calls between two operators does not flow etc., leading telecom operators not only for interoperability can not bring their own interests deserve the contrary, the more the more suffer through not only the operator to advance the emerging network interconnection costs, but also to make themselves into the competition disadvantage, watched his competitors take a lot of traffic diversion, in the end only for others to do the awake, this Peibenshengyi who would want to do it?
telecommunications industry veteran entrepreneurs and the unanimous will of are: the future of the telecommunications law, should be a complete market economy laws and regulations, ensure that the market mechanism in the regulation of the position, let the price lever to speak, to develop their own businesses based on market sales prices for their telecommunications, development of interconnection of the settlement enterprise itself price.
Second question: the Telecommunications Act will completely break business do?
reporters returnees have friends in less than six months time, actually frequently replaced a dozen phone numbers, move tomorrow to go running today China Unicom, the cycle of monetary loss time-consuming and laborious, time also argue: power consumption. can completely break business?
people do not negate the achievements of China's telecommunications reform, but the people not satisfied, although the independence of Posts and Telecommunications Commission in the past the solution, but by a monopoly into a monopoly of just two or three. We hope that the reform of China's telecommunications industry should be beachhead, thoroughly break the corporate monopoly of the telecommunications market. that people expected a lot from being developed by the Telecommunications Act.
is fair to both buyers and sellers in theory voluntary, consumer choice is the market consumption and refused the privilege to consumers. However, monopoly in the market conditions, the consumers of this privileged monopoly of force can only stand to be denied, leaving only to their frustration and lament. complaint? monopoly is another form of market hegemony, do not worry about losing as long as the monopoly market, confusion remains journey complaints. consumers are vulnerable groups, can only rely on legal support, protection. < br> Experts pointed out that to break the monopoly, must be progressively liberalized telecommunications market in China. we must first increase the number of operators to achieve a number of business telecommunications market, a number of competition; Second, conditions have the ability to operate single business telecommunications the whole enterprise business license issued to achieve cross-business, cross-competition.
examples of developed countries, a country's telecommunications market, only a number of management, long competition to encourage telecom companies to carry out price competition, promote deep levels of service quality competition.
Australia, for example, before 1997, the Australian telecommunications market by Telstra and Optus Communications (now known as SingTel Optus) company duopoly, many problems result, users complain; 1997 In July after the Australian telecommunications market is fully open, at the end of the year, 93 companies have received permits network operators, multi-level competition under strict supervision in the government, the market has not only arbitrary, but expanding, big, state tax increases, service quality improved. Some have worked in Australia, friends said, and now Australia, telecommunications users can really enjoy the to eat more than the six points, the adjustment of interests involved, there will certainly be resistance; reporter interviewed before in Hainan Province, Hainan Communications Authority lilac coat, he said, to create a comprehensive fair competition in telecommunications markets environment, in accordance with the existing six operators is far enough, according to WTO rules, and will not always exist only state-owned telecom operator, China's going to be a number of companies, business cross, long multi-level competition monitoring the situation, which requires telecommunications law to solve the problem, but the need for strict regulation and a strong law enforcement team.
three questions: How the Telecommunications Act to ensure the effective monitoring and enforcement?
How to clear all levels of law enforcement telecommunications regulatory authority and responsibility, a clear body of law enforcement, increased law enforcement authority and enforcement, but also a question of people's attention.
now from the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Authority during the government-enterprise separation out of one. Telecommunications Authority and the telecommunications company now has a Interoperability has Nanjinrenyi? Results disorder is: a key moment to move on in key areas. So, the most effective telecommunications regulation should be just ineffective. now all around the traffic management control means of a single, mostly on the violations symbolic warning to fines, people say, the telecom operators, have not really even a fraction.
September 19, according to People's Daily reported that China Telecom Corporation of Hainan Province Hainan Branch of China Railcom because of the communication route set artificial barriers between the two networks led to The completion rate below 30%, which, Hainan Province, Hainan Telecom Authority communication out of the 30 million domestic first kinds of long-term unilateral monopoly fixed-line integrated sink mentality of mere 30 million fine is not enough to deter the fixed operators.
some industry experts believe that the future of the agency law enforcement authority, power and responsibility, and increasing government regulation and intensity of inputs; breaks the law on telecommunications companies, disrupting the market, damaging consumer behavior, provides clear rules and penalties for the punishment level, in addition to warnings, fines, suspend business for rectification of the In addition, the major parties should be investigated for legal responsibility and the responsibility of the principal leaders of business, and revocation of telecommunications business qualifications, held the highest civil criminal penalties, so earnestly curried operators, according to law. In addition, the state-owned enterprises, joint-stock enterprises and private enterprises, local enterprises and foreign enterprises, foreign-policy law in front, should be equal, without discrimination.
Four questions: Who will ensure the accuracy and fairness Billing?
in the consumer rights Dialogue interview rights protection, this is the telecommunications concern for consumers.
do not like the markets are due to weighbeam Duanjinqueliang the same standards, the current metering and billing telecommunications device two Among these are tricky, it? fair? who say where.
some time ago, Shenzhen China Central Television Station reported the public telephone billing problems. User talk only 40 seconds, the place of the public phone billing device is at one minute to charge, no one like this Detection monitoring meter, far more than thousands and thousands of the country? If each charging a dollar more than the daily average, the National not to receive tens of millions more? a consumer slaughtered a few cents may not be a problem, so tens of millions of ill-gotten gains arising from the issue be considered?
the previous Silver City office for billing and mobile phone does not match the actual talk time, by the consumer court, after sampling by the Silver City Bureau of Quality Supervision Test data show that the silver branch of Unicom 35 call, call duration measurement tolerance (positive deviation) of 34, 97.14% of the total number of calls; mobile silver branch 35 a call, the phone long-tolerance (positive deviation) of 31, 88.57% of the total number of calls. The former calls generated calls 17.81 yuan , measured by duration of tolerance,UGG boots cheap, multi-user calls received 5.23 yuan; which generate calls 17.25 yuan, measured by duration of tolerance, multi-income users 3.75 yuan. Silver City, so there rest of the country do?
journalists to investigate also found that Mobile, China Unicom mobile phone users roaming charges occupying two acts. For example, a foreign mobile users roaming in Beijing, when all of this phone to make and receive mobile phone users in Beijing, not through long-distance lines, but the two interconnection fees paid by mobile phone is entirely different, Beijing mobile users call addition to phone, basic phone calls as long as the payment of 4 per minute corner, in addition to answering phone calls to Beijing Mobile phone calls, cost per domestic roaming charges minutes, 6 angle; and if Beijing Unicom's mobile phone users, the call charges also to mobile users is completely different, and Beijing Unicom's mobile phone for calling, the cost of basic domestic long distance calls plus calls, in addition to mobile phones to receive Beijing China Unicom's mobile phone, then have to pay roaming charges per minute, plus domestic long distance, in turn, China Unicom mobile phone users roam the field to Beijing, Beijing, China Unicom's mobile users to call overseas mobile phone, or answer phone outside Beijing Unicom's mobile phone telephone, both parties have to pay long-distance calls.
caused due to this wanton misappropriation, Mobile, China Unicom two operators, not to each other mobile phone users roaming outside the local information exchange and sent to the other terms fee system. in accordance with the existing 7 per minute for long distance charges angle calculation, roaming in a field outside the networks of local phone and mobile phone call, Mobile, China Unicom total occupation of the two mobile phone users per minute roaming charges to 1 per 4 corner, who can considered clean, one year, the number of foreign national roaming to the Beijing phone? how many minutes of this call? by the two companies misappropriated roaming user calls the country Know to Beijing.
China's current situation is that the user unilaterally by only passive data provided by telecom operators to pay, who will monitor carriers for the consumer?
currently have this international telecom billing management experience, such as the British government in 1984 pursuant to British Telecommunications Act established the Telecom Regulatory Authority Oftel (The Office of Telecommunications), is mainly responsible for research policy development of the telecommunications industry standards and regulatory telecom operators to develop a third-party authority mBABT (British ApprovalBoards for Telecommunications), joint implementation of the telecommunications terminal equipment and billing systems certification.
interview hoping the vast majority of consumers in the development of telecommunications law, whether to require the establishment of government authority or a third party designated by the government telecom billing certification?
five Q: Who will solve the not a secret. We are on the broadband access business advertising when, after the actual installation of broadband, access providers told us before, the country limit, the user can only use the last-mile broadband.
no wonder that in the associations of this year network services during the first half received 906 complaints, compared with an increase of 266.8 percent over the same period last year, an increase of complaints from service class ranked first in the content of the complaints are mostly Gigabit, why do we actually use the speed of broadband users has slowed to a crawl? Why Broadband is not wide?
experts say, is the current billing abuses is a long time and billing, not by flow accounting, the use of information much less and use of information, and users to pay as much money. Therefore, the operator of the profit model can only be full for most of the users and access time, and not to efforts to broaden the network exit bandwidth, such information is bound to create high-speed Highway .
industry believes that the network billing system for a long time and has always been unfair, unless the infinite network resources, or affected only the consumers. telecoms law should address the stereotypes, the statutory rates according to the information flow network fee.
on telecommunications analysts believe that if the Telecommunications Act to develop a reasonable network traffic accounting standards, to a certain extent, can also play the role of intellectual property protection of the cultural sector. When a user downloads a movie from the network felt costs, compared to the cinema to see a more expensive, and when the pirates either upload or download movies, music, must pay a fee when the network traffic, then the law of value will play a decisive role.
from the China Internet Network Information Center, the latest figures, China's online population has reached 68 million; a market research firm Norson Telecom Consulting's China's broadband market research report also pointed out that China's broadband market investment will be in 2003 increase of 67% to 45 billion yuan, China in 2005, the number of broadband users will reach 2100 million people, about more than the number expected to double this year. This is a business opportunity, but also a storm, when the network is not resolved charging by traffic problems, will have broadband access providers are not only br> This is the telecom consumers are most concerned about the three.
they asked: Consumers and operators of consumer transactions are purely between the equal relationship between the operator is entitled to inspect the user's identity and must be used ID card to register for the telecommunications business? Caller ID is related to personal privacy?
reporters that most of these problems relate to user privacy. operators will say, checking identity cards to ensure security and telecommunications charges, the need for social security . According to a press know, the address is clear and fixed installed, the user can not leave; mobile phone why not sufficient, even if the user delinquent or criminal law and order problems occur, with the current electronic technology, the system can locate the boot of the phone to a specific location. As for caller ID, in fact, operators can achieve technically hide Caller ID, but now all the telecom operators would not just for the sake of users, they even denied to disclose the user's personal information would violate user privacy.
an entrepreneur, told reporters that his company had business volume sudden and dramatic decline in business for some time, a huge loss of customers, and finally verified, was his rival, to a communications company's business offices to pay telephone charges for the means he obtained the company's calls to print a list of competitors by This lured a large number of his company's customers, to make his company a huge loss. is no legal basis, the user only endure the sound of air swallowed.
Is not this strong evidence? According to key telecommunications business survey, more than 55% of people believe that the protection of personal privacy more and more difficult, the survey, 29.3% said that their most of the consumer objects that the future of the telecommunications law should protect the privacy of telecommunications users to make clear personal definition and requirements.
Seven Questions: Who will lift the user's communications security, telecom liability risk?
we all know, Present Status of China's telecommunications means many technical or human security risks theft of telecommunication lines, such as Pirates of the lines and telephone lines, mobile phones and machines, eavesdropping and theft of wireless devices through the mobile phone number, and the keyboard keys to bypass the user through the plane the user switches the switch settings Daoda phone (such as the switchboard of the hotel set up small), and even some telecommunication companies have been Daoda phone cards.
how to define the responsibilities of these security incidents? addition to those who bear the main responsibility for deliberately outside Daoda , and some have joint and several liability. Some manufacturers of communications equipment belonging to the technical design of the hidden dangers left behind, and some are carriers of Dao Da prevention, care caused by inadequate, and some may also be inadvertently stolen their joint and several batters responsibility. these problems, the current law has not clearly defined. So there phone Daoda who are first by consumers pay and the burden of proof, such as those found Daoda, and then sentenced by the Daoda responsible for repayment of Daoda calls. This is a high-handed bullying behavior of consumers, is extremely unreasonable. precisely because of the risk of theft hit full pressure to the consumers, telecom equipment providers fishes his carefree security risks in the system.
consumers Originally only as a communication tool to consumers, consumers should pay for his actions after the communication, telecom operators should be providing equipment for the consumer spending, network, systems, technology, maintenance and human services, which should also include network cabling equipment safe custody. all of these services are not in place and there phone Daoda, why should consumers use the communication tools and proof Daoda unilateral commitment of those responsible? to fixed telephone, for example, switching equipment in the engine room system and the process of connecting lines are potential safety hazard, consumers are powerless to fight theft, telecommunications law should clearly define the primary responsibility for these incidents, and joint and several liability, to distinguish between equipment providers, operators and the specific responsibilities between individuals, between operators and consumers to avoid risk.
by the Telecommunications Act provides a phone stolen fight the insurance program, telephone Daoda insurance carriers cover, this is a good way to solve the problem.
Eight Questions: value-added telecom business, Currently, mobile operators force open mobile phone text messages, voice value-added services such as telephone voice service, together with the amount of consumption charges along with phone, whether voluntary spending against the wishes of consumers?
high value-added telecom services, has long been the industry's rate of return open secret, such as mobile phone SMS value-added business communications company, which is divided into a ratio of the mobile companies take 15% value-added service operators get 85%. Therefore, some value-added operating companies for access to short-term profits at lawlessness, calls. for your selection, make sure you have a satisfied Tel hh also received a similar message. in the reporter's cell phone to text message content code 3883, said: A friend sent you a voice message, you can call 125 906 818 listen, listen to voice messages on the mobile company free of charge. The reporter called the number, was told that a sex audio content, 3 yuan per minute.
so many taken advantage of.
In addition, consumers as download ringtones, online registration, misuse, and often result in considerable costs a pen number; more unscrupulous operators of value-added services, often malicious wrong to issue some guidance information, so that users to waste money, beneficiary of his; some site registration only lead you hooked, but not to provide cancellation of operations; reporters in the usual interview process also found that some parts of the mobile phone operating companies, forced to the whole network users to send jokes, entertainment, message content, for some time, if not for the consumer to cancel the operation, it is considered the default subscription calls per month deducted from the royalty value-added services.
attention will be promulgated in the Telecommunications Act, ability to develop value-added services on telecom regulation and market control of business rules. reporter talked to a well-known economic experts, he said: telecom operators and consumers is formed between a communication between the supply and demand, telecom operators communication tools available to agents on behalf of the payment as currency, and even forced to pay, or even as the scale of the game industry in the world doubled, and the sluggish world economy, in sharp contrast to the annual global game industry output value of .2001 9.4 billion, has surpassed the film industry (89 billion U.S. dollars) in 2002 is to reach a record 17.5 billion. From a structural point of view, the online gaming industry, is fast, network-oriented development.
2002 online game market in China since the rapid growth of industry structure is the world's major impact on the game. China now has nearly 10 million online game market, including Softbank, Microsoft, a lot of capital, has put it as one of the best profit growth point to a substantial investment.
However, in September last year, burst from the
Many gamers told reporters that the network hopes to write rules of the game and control the Telecommunications Act, manufacturers and gamers to play a fair game healthy and safe environment.
Ten Questions: Solving the interconnection of telecommunications industry fundamental way in which?
Why China's telecommunications companies over the years can not solve the interoperability? experts believe that the problem is not a unified platform for public telecommunications.
now mobile, fixed-line telecommunications companies all are ; independent kingdom billions of billions of calculations, are state-owned assets, no one hurt. It is said that any one of the cable they have sufficient national resources to users, while telecom operators have to spend each year thousands of yuan of investment, upgrade their equipment system. as long as the , China Netcom, telecommunications, CRC is an independent 114 directory assistance, mutually unintelligible, and do not share a phone number the user needs to search more than 114 calls, is very inconvenient, this also involves the interconnection problem.
many telecommunications and economic experts presented a bold vision: from the long-term stability considerations, the legal establishment of the Telecommunications Act of specialized equipment for operating companies and network operators to the existing number of mobile, fixed line, satellite communications platform, the acquisition of existing telecommunications operators of communications equipment and network line resources, the establishment of two national unified platform for public use, respectively, the establishment of national communications equipment company and the national public network of the company; the newly formed joint-stock company implemented the two groups are the major telecom operators shares, respectively, to achieve common management and common operations.
all future communication equipment communication equipment by the state company building; all the communication lines by the national public investment in all of the company responsible for building the network. major telecom operators have paid the whole business license, rent public facilities of the operating companies and the public telecommunication line telecommunications platforms, sharing of resources.
experts believe that this reform will fundamentally solve the interoperability problem. With the reunification of the whole network of public telecommunications platform, but also does not exist interconnection between operators costs and avoid duplication of investment in telecommunications networks, redundant construction in favor of lower operating costs, telecommunications charges certainly can reduce the use of, the phone-line charges will subsequently be resolved, countries do not have to support the weak telecommunications companies, telecommunications charges, some were asymmetric regulation, enabling enterprises to competition on the same starting line.
this idea constructive and practical. The reason is very simple, like the People's Bank and the specialized banks, airports and the relationship between airlines as operators in the actual operation of the network operating company leased to the No. sources, the company leased to the network communication lines, respectively, the company settled to the two communication costs and line rental charges; if the existing extensive network of resources also included in this reform, the more difficult the national telephone, television, the Internet 3G network, select Europe's 3G, or choose our own intellectual property rights of the TD-SCDMA, the current controversy rather than consensus, each mobile communications companies want their own way. This is a matter of our national basic industries in the international telecommunications market as a whole breakthrough event, with national unity of the two public telecommunications platform, as long as the statutory standard of 3G TD-SCDMA, we will be able to become the world's 3G mobile phone users with the largest number of 3G network platform, 3G operators will be able to force the international giant, for its own sake must be integrated with our platform, following China's 3G standard; Since then, China has not only out of the use of European and American standards for 3G patent fee burden of thousands of yuan, and the 3G patent fee income in one fell swoop into the country for China's 3G national manufacturing industry to the world, bringing a broad market space for development.