Which travel agencies have launched tours to Germany to watch the World Cup this year? What is the price?

Friends who are lucky enough to watch the World Cup in Germany will have to pay a cheap international roaming fee if they talk to their relatives and friends at home directly. Germany can choose two operators, one of which is the operator with the code "O2", and its tariff standard is as follows: 0.86× 1 15% Euro/min for local calls and 0.59×165438 for domestic calls (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). The charge for sending short messages is 0. 17× 1 15% euro/article, and receiving short messages is free. If the operator with the code "D2" is selected, the domestic charging standard is1.634×115% (EUR/min), which is about 18.79 RMB.

If the family is far away from home, no matter which country, they usually call home from abroad because the phone bill is cheap. A friend said that he used a calling card on a fixed telephone in Britain, and even if he talked with friends at home for an hour, 5 pounds would be enough. If you use a mobile phone instead, even if you calculate according to China Mobile's latest lowered standard of 5.99 yuan/minute, this 5 kg is only enough for him to make a phone call for more than ten minutes. Similarly, in the United States, if you use a calling card to make a call on a landline, it costs more than ten cents per minute to make a call from the United States. But if you call the United States from China, dial with 20 1 card, which costs 9 yuan for more than one minute. Even if you dial 17909, you still need 2.4 yuan/minute, plus the basic domestic long-distance charges. Counting, every minute close to 3 yuan. This price is still much more expensive than calling from abroad.

Whether in the United States or Europe, China people who study or work abroad can easily buy this international calling card through websites or local supermarkets. Usually everyone knows which card will be cheaper to play. However, domestic users have not enjoyed such a cheap phone bill so far. At present, except for the 17908 card issued by China Netcom and the 96998 card issued by China Telecom, there are almost no other cards in international long-distance concessions.

Does the high cost determine the high charge?

Why is international roaming so expensive?

In response to this problem, operators said that high costs determine high fees. A related person from China Mobile said that the cost and input can't be compared at all, and we can't just consider the price. For example, there are more than 40,000 base stations in China and only 1 1,000 base stations in Britain. Can the input cost between the two be compared?

According to reports, international roaming and international long-distance services are provided with access services by domestic operators and local operators. However, the number of mobile phone users roaming between two different countries is not exactly equal. When a country receives users from another country for a long time, the two operators pay different fees, so the operators must pay the access fee to each other, which leads to the international roaming fee. The settlement process of international long-distance calls is basically the same. Because it involves the cost settlement of different operators in the two countries, it needs to be coordinated and determined by the telecom operators in the two countries.

They said that in order to determine the price of international telephone charges, China Mobile negotiated with more than 300 telecom operators in more than 200 countries around the world. Next, China Mobile will definitely give consumers more preferential treatment in international long-distance calls. Half a month ago, China Mobile has greatly reduced the tariff standard for international roaming.

After the tariff is reduced, it is still very expensive.

Compared with ten years ago, the price of international long-distance calls in the United States dropped from 32 yuan to 2.4 yuan now. The number of people who hit other areas has also been greatly reduced.

Not long ago, China Mobile announced a reduction in international roaming charges. After the adjustment, the international roaming charges will be greatly reduced, the called charges and GPRS roaming charges will be reduced by an average of 50%, and the ** 139 callback service charges will be reduced to 5.99 yuan/minute. At the same time, aiming at the World Cup, China Mobile also launched the World Cup roaming discount, with an average drop of 70%. Specifically, the tariff for dialing German numbers is lowered to 1.99 yuan/min, for dialing back to China to 4.99 yuan/min, for sending short messages to mobile users to 0.99 yuan/piece, for dialing back and * * 139 to 3.99 yuan/min, and for GPRS roaming to 0.03 yuan /KB (traffic).

At present, China Telecom's 96998 Meijia card, China Hongkong card, Korean card, Russian card and Singaporean card are basically sold at 20% of the face value. After the discount, the Singapore card is 0.72 yuan/minute, the Russian card is 0.92 yuan/minute, the Japanese card 1. 19 yuan card is 0.09 yuan/minute. Even so, industry insiders say that domestic and international telephone charges are still expensive.

"If the price difference was ten times ten years ago, the change now is only an absolute level decline. However, it is also declining internationally. China's international telephone charges are much more expensive than many telecom powers. " It is reported that in India, it is 1 rupee per minute, which is about 0.2 yuan RMB. This shows that China is much more expensive than other countries.

Experts believe that international telephone charges will be reduced.

For China Mobile, the international roaming charges have been greatly reduced recently. Kan Kaili, a well-known telecom expert, pointed out that international roaming charges are different from domestic roaming charges, involving the settlement of charges between different countries and regions and different operators. So it has the meaning of existence, but in the long run, it will gradually decrease.

Regarding the high international roaming charges in China, he said that the relatively monopolized market, the late development status and the time needed for policy formulation may all lead to the high international call charges in China telecom market. Several domestic telecom operators have formed a relative monopoly position and controlled prices to some extent. Unlike many countries, which have hundreds of store letter operating companies, it is not surprising that the market is mature and competitive, the telecom cost is low, and the telephone charges are low.

However, the original starting price of China telecom market is relatively high, which also affects the current tariff situation. So it will take a long time to reach the level of European and American countries. At the same time, because this is a game between consumers and operators, it also takes time.

The downward adjustment of international telephone charges is an inevitable trend. In May this year, the European Communications Commission said it planned to cancel the international roaming charges for mobile phones in EU countries. Under the pressure of the European Union, six operators, including T-Mobile, French Orange and Telecom Italia, announced that they would reduce the international roaming charges among the six major operators. Therefore, in such a big environment, with the drastic reduction of roaming charges and long-distance charges in various places, the monopoly barrier of tariffs on regions has actually been broken, and cross-regional tariff competition has become a reality. China's international roaming charges will be gradually reduced.