Has China abolished roaming charges?

With the continuous improvement of the communications industry, both signal technology and charging standards are changing with each passing day. China has abolished domestic roaming charges. Now domestic calls are 0.1 yuan per minute regardless of long-distance or short-distance.

1. When calling other domestic users within the country, the call fee is 0.1 yuan per minute, and receiving domestic calls is free.

2. When the call time is less than one minute, it is calculated as one minute, and the text message is 0.1 yuan per message.

3. Domestic calls do not include Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The call charges in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan are subject to the specific call charges.

Cancellation of long-distance and roaming charges

On March 6, 2017, the three major operators of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom stated that they would fully implement the cancellation of mobile phone charges starting from October 1, 2017. Domestic long distance and roaming charges. On July 27, 2017, the three major operators all announced that they would cancel domestic long-distance roaming charges on September 1.

On March 5, 2018, the 2018 Government Work Report proposed that "the data 'roaming' fee will be cancelled, and mobile network traffic rates will be reduced by at least 30% within the year." On the evening of March 5, the three major telecom operators China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom responded successively and stated that they would resolutely implement the relevant national policy requirements and work arrangements for "increasing speeds and reducing fees", and would go all out and advance promptly.

On June 22, 2018, the three major operators of China Mobile, China Unicom and Telecom announced that they would cancel roaming fees from July 1, 2018, and upgrade intra-provincial traffic to domestic traffic.