Domestic calls are 15 cents a minute. Why is it so cheap? "Because voice is transmitted through the Internet, compared with traditional telephones, it saves a lot of communication costs between countries and regions, and some of them also save some or all telephone landing fees. The lowest cost is only one tenth of that of an IP card. " At the same time, this answer also explains why domestic businesses operating VoIP services were born in one year. Some insiders pointed out that operating VoIP "doesn't need any fees in theory, except for promotion fees, it earns huge profits."
Although we can't get the specific number of merchants, according to the reporter, there are more than 100 kinds of VoIP software all over the country, and foreign free software is also popular in China, and some software is operated by unrelated agents all over the country. In this way, it is not an exaggerated figure that there are thousands of businesses operating VoIP services across the country.
Despite the suspicion of "hiding wealth", these businesses operating VoIP invariably refute the statement of "profiteering". Their "bitter water" is that what attracts users at present is the way of "computer-to-phone", and accessing ordinary phones means leaving "money to buy roads" for fixed and mobile networks of traditional telecom operators. Their business model is generally to provide a platform for individual users to transmit voice data to this platform through the Internet. When this platform is docked with traditional operators, the operators charge phone bills according to long-distance timing (called "landing"), and VoIP operators earn the difference.
In other words, 0. 15 yuan per minute is far from net profit, and the "landing" fee for accessing local operators will occupy most of the income. According to the person in charge of Guangdong Xunjie Network Co., Ltd.' s "heartthrob" VoIP promotion station in Beijing, it is still difficult to "land" in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, because large operators generally require a high fee of 0. 12 yuan/minute, "unless the landing fee falls below 9 cents per minute, they can't start business". Therefore, the business of heartthrob in Beijing adopts the way of "landing" in different places.
Nevertheless, these services have not been abandoned, and the development trend of VoIP and the potential users in the future are indeed quite attractive. Although VoIP has always been labeled as "poor quality", users have begun to accept such call quality because of its low rate. Zhao Ying, manager of Chengdu Lang Wei Technology Co., Ltd., which operates VoIP, said that the current call quality largely depends on the speed of the backbone network. Nowadays, the popularity of broadband networks and the investment of VoIP operators in gateways and servers have improved the quality. Although there is still a gap with the fixed line, VoIP has won the high "return rate" of individual users as the mainstream at present.