Telecom Operators Launch Systemic Slimming

Recently, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, the three major basic telecom operators, have successively implemented channel standardization policies, initiating a systematic 'slimming' across the industry. At the end of September, the purchase of devices for 'zero yuan' was comprehensively suspended. Previously, third-party internet channels for mobile number card applications were halted, with online sales channels unified to official operator apps and websites. Zhu Keli, founder president of the Academy of New Economy Research, stated that suspending 'zero yuan' device purchases and third-party internet card sales are essentially operators bidding farewell to a extensive growth model reliant on high subsidies and channel commissions for user scale, cutting cost bubbles in their customer acquisition systems.