NB-IOT tariff survey

China Telecom: China Telecom Internet of Things

The earliest layout of the Internet of Things, providing Internet of Things commercial solutions. Announcement of NB-iot usage fees in June 2017

Layout: nationwide deployment of NB-IoT network and 800M frequency band LTE Cat.1 network

Products: IoT cards, cloud platforms, communication modules (chips)

Package Type ———— NB-IoT

NB-IoT service charges include: one-time activation fee, connection service fee, SMS fee and value-added service fee, etc.

One-time activation fee: One-time activation fee for key services such as VPDN is charged according to the actual needs of customers.

Connection service fee: The NB-IoT channel connection service fee is charged annually or by the customer's product life cycle.

SMS and value-added service fees: The relevant tariffs and subscription rules are basically the same as those for 2/3/4G services.

 

The high-frequency function fee refers to the high-frequency usage fee charged for every 20,000 connection frequency in each contract year of the contract period. That is, within the contract year, high-frequency users who connect more than 20,000 times will be charged an additional 20 yuan per household.

Very simple billing method, connection fee = total number of telecom NB-loT connections * connection unit price of each NB-loT connection, if the connection frequency is exceeded, additional fees will be charged.

 

China Mobile:

At the China Mobile Global Partner Conference held in November 2017, China Mobile disclosed the NB-IoT tariff for the first time, and launched a concise and affordable annual package, including 20 yuan and 40 yuan.

More detailed tariffs for this package have not been announced so far.

 

China Unicom: Charged by traffic (limited monthly data traffic for a single link)

For each "connection", a mode of charging by traffic is adopted--for each NB-IOT connection, a monthly traffic limit is set. If the total traffic of the month exceeds the limit, the excess part will be calculated as an out-of-contract fee.

Two usage modes are set for the tariff: VPDN directional traffic and Internet traffic (ie: general traffic), and the tariff standards for the two methods are different.

A single "connection" is charged according to the monthly traffic, and 3 total monthly traffic packages are set, and the excess traffic is charged according to the "outsourced fee". The tariff package also includes a "platform usage fee" of 1 yuan per month.

IoT cards are generally divided into large traffic (1024M), medium traffic (150-1024M), small traffic (10-100M) and very small traffic (<10M) according to the monthly traffic standard of a single user.

Application scenarios of IoT cards divided by traffic: