First, the package comparison
Let's get down to business. Let's take a look at the comparison between virtual operator's tariff and package. In order to facilitate the comparative view based on the tariff level, we put the package options with similar prices in one line, and we also use spaces to indicate the corresponding price ranges.
Table 1: Comparison of package tariffs among operators (Note: the three major operators choose 4G tariffs)
Due to space constraints, we divided the whole table into three sheets. Click here to view the complete table.
As can be seen from the table:
1. From the package threshold, the overall starting price of virtual operator is lower than that of traditional operators. However, judging from the contents of the package, voice and traffic are not too much, and some people need 5 yuan a month to buy their own caller ID. For users with low demand, perhaps virtual operator is a cost-effective choice. But at present, virtual operator still uses 3G network, so this price is not much superior to the 3G tariff of traditional operators.
2. In terms of high-end packages, the three major operators still have sufficient advantages, especially in terms of traffic. Compared with Unicom and the most expensive package in the Yangtze River era, the Yangtze River era is nearly as expensive as 300 yuan, but it has 6G less traffic than Unicom.
3. There are three kinds of special pricing operators, which are explained separately here.
One is Dixintong. For five kinds of packages ranging from 1 19 yuan to 579 yuan, Dixintong has no fixed content, but is uniformly priced according to voice 0. 15 yuan/minute and traffic 0.2 yuan /MB, and users can freely combine them within the price range of monthly fee.
The second is the 170 package of Yin Tian Communication. The main feature of this package is to enjoy it with others. For example, for the two-person package in 70 yuan, the average cost is 35 yuan per person per month, and each person gets 80 minutes of voice and 150M traffic (the supplementary card needs to purchase caller ID separately, 5 yuan/month), but it can also be uneven, which is suitable for home use.
The third is the snail movement that does not appear in the table. Snail Mobile mainly introduced 399 free cards (0 yuan) and 999 free cards (699 yuan). Both of them give away some traffic and voice through one-time purchase of numbers, and then charge the excess separately. The difference is that 399 free cards are given every month, while 999 free cards are given once every six months.
Second, the comparison of free combination tariffs.
Let's take a look at several virtual operator that implement unified billing:
Table 2: Comparison of Free Combination Tariffs of Operators
(The lowest price of vertical comparison is marked in red) [Save to photo album]
The so-called free combination tariff is a simple pricing standard that you charge as much as you use, and there is no package.
It should be noted that:
1, Suning and Yin Tian don't need a service fee, but they need 5 yuan for a month's caller ID, and several other companies have this service.
2. Suning and Ai Shide adopted a phased pricing method.
Suning's voice and SMS are charged by "dynamic disconnection" mode, and there are four grades of voice: 10 1-200 minutes, 0. 15 yuan/minute, 0. 14 yuan/minute, and 20 1-30. The same is true of text messages.
Ai Shide U Friends also adopted a segmented discount method: 20~70 yuan: 10% off; 70~ 190 yuan: 15% discount; 1Above 90 yuan: 20% discount.
As can be seen from the above table, if users have low demand for voice and traffic, virtual operator may be a good choice. But for the vast majority of users, the minimum package is obviously not enough.
Third, the quota cost comparison
Next, let's take a month's 1G traffic and 500 minutes of calls as the quota to see how much each family needs to buy roughly the same service.
Table 3: (about 1G+500+500min) Monthly rental fee of operators (from low to high)
Generally speaking, traditional operators are cheaper than virtual operator for roughly the same service. This is not surprising, because virtual operator is like a second-class wholesaler. They just "contracted" part of the communication network from China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, and then sold it to consumers. The price is subject to the wholesale price given by the three major operators.
Conclusion: virtual operator is not cheap.
At present, the price war in virtual operator is very difficult to fight, and all companies basically rely on special services to attract customers, such as snail-mobile traffic-free games and JD.COM. COM shopping phone. So, if you are not a big fan of virtual operator's main business, it seems unnecessary to bother to change the number.