# Telecom Industry

The Zero-Fee Mirage: Why China’s Telecom Giants Won’t Kill the Monthly Subscription

Rumors of a nationwide shift to zero-monthly-fee telecom plans in China have been met with skepticism by industry experts. While China Unicom has launched a flexible pay-as-you-go pilot, analysts argue that infrastructure costs and the management of finite resources like spectrum make a total abolition of monthly fees unsustainable.