What is an operation service provider?

Operators are providers of network services. China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom are all operators, because the state is very strict in telecommunications management, and only companies with operating licenses issued by the Ministry of Information Industry can set up networks. Nokia, Samsung and other manufacturers are communication equipment manufacturers, not operators. From the perspective of communication industry, equipment manufacturers and operators are interdependent, but operators generally have more advantages, just as China Mobile stipulates that some mobile phones produced by Nokia and other mobile phone manufacturers should be branded with GSM.

Service Provider, namely service provider (SP), is the direct provider of mobile Internet service content and application services, usually referring to telecom value-added service providers, and is responsible for developing and providing services suitable for mobile phone users according to users' needs. By SMS, MMS, WAP, etc. To provide information services to users through the value-added interface provided by telecom network operators, and then the operators deduct the relevant service fees from the users' mobile phone fees and broadband fees, and finally the operators and SP share them in proportion. SP service of mobile phone terminal includes SMS, which is the simplest SP service. It also includes multimedia messages that users can obtain various personalized multimedia contents. In addition, games, color ring tones, dating communities, advertisements and so on are all value-added services.