China drafting document on mobile phone fee reminders

By Owen Fletcher, Dow Jones Newswires

Thursday 09 December 2010

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Thursday it is working with “relevant parties” to draft a document aimed at guiding telecommunications companies in reminding users about the prices of communications services, adding the ministry has noted recent incidents in which users were charged high prices for sending certain types of messages via mobile phones.
Those incidents include messages sent to microblogging and instant-messaging services, and high fees charged for mobile data services used outside China, the ministry said.
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.’s parent company, China United Network Communications Group Co., said on its website Thursday that one of its subscribers who traveled to Russia recently incurred charges of CNY3,948 due to the use of international roaming data services.
A Unicom Group spokesman declined to comment on the ministry’s statement.
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