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During my recent talk with George, I was surprised to know, for the first time, that most other countries use the receiver pay SMS business model. China is among the few countries in the world where only sender is charged.
IMHO, it is more reasonable for the sender to pay the fee. Otherwise, I may think twice before I send a piece of SMS to others: Is my message important enough for the money my friend has to pay?
Mobile Roaming
Rob asked
I am a foreigner with a China Unicom mobile I bought in Rizhao a city in Shandong, I have now moved to Tai’an. I know that it is a little expensive to call the mobile from Tai’an. If someone in Rizhao calls my mobile and I am in Tai’an is it expensive for them to call me or do I pay the extra ?
Yes. I believe the charging model in China is very diiferent than other countries regarding the roaming use. China News has a great aritle to explain it.
Pre-paid? Billed? Roaming? An Explaination of Mobile Charging Model
From the table II in this article, you can see, for example, if you have a Unicom mobile, you pay 0.36 RMB/minutes to call someone or receive a phone call in Rizha. If you are outside of Rizhao, you pay 0.6 RMB/minutes to call and 0.07 RMB/6 seconds to receive calls. It is more expensive.
Posted by Jian Shuo Wang at February 19, 2004 9:40 AM
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the double pay of caller and reciever is the most unreasonable way of all...
Posted by: tutu (external link) on February 19, 2004 10:24 AMIt seems there should be some systematic proach to design pricing structure. I was faced to design pricing structure and it was not easy.
Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang (external link) on February 19, 2004 11:36 PMthis is not the case in India.....looks to be unfair to charge the receiver
Posted by: Sekhar on February 20, 2004 4:50 PMGreat site, was just reading and doing some work when I found this page
Posted by: call in (external link) on August 1, 2005 12:03 PM