【新唐人2013年04月08日訊】日前，「微信是否收費」的爭議，成為大陸網路上最熱門的話題。一方是「工業和信息化部」以及三大電信巨頭主張的「肯定收費」，另一方是微信開發商聲稱的「不收費」。而有九成網友對收費表示牴觸，並表示「收費就不用」。專家們則認為，這是一場壟斷企業和民營企業之間的利益之爭，不應該把成本轉嫁給百姓來承擔。
「微信」是大陸「騰訊公司」，於2011年1月 21號推出的一款手機聊天軟件。可以通過網絡快速發送手機語音短信、視頻、圖片和文字，支持多人群聊。
「微信」誕生兩年多來，中國大陸用戶已經突破3億，直逼中國三大電信運營商，也造成了三巨頭的收入大幅下滑。面臨民企「騰訊」的威脅和挑戰，國企運營商們終於「舉起了手中的刀」。
3月31號，大陸《財經網》報導，「工業和信息化部」部長苗圩曾透露「微信有收費但不會大幅收費」。隨後「工信部」決策層也明確對媒體表示：「微信收費是肯定，但具體如何收費還在研究中」。這一消息引發了大量微信用戶的不滿。
海南省大學生 小韓：「像微信已經以流量這個點在收錢了，就不應該再去收一份應用費。運營公司可能真的是沒錢，或者窮瘋了吧，才會想到這種主意吧，我覺得是很荒唐的一件事情啊！」
據《新華網》發起的最新調查顯示，有九成以上網友表示﹕「如果微信收費將不會繼續使用」。
北京民辦教育機構負責人 張先生：「相對來說不讚同吧，因為肯定還有其他的軟體可以用，並不一定非要用微信。那麼如果收費收到一定的價格，大部分都沒有人用了，那麼我自己一個人在裡邊也沒有甚麼意思。」
小韓：「我聽說這個事情以後，我特彆氣憤你知道嗎﹗本來我們上網用QQ、微信、人人網這些社交網路，第一是因為用戶多，第二是因為不用收費。如果收費以後，我是不會繼續使用了。」
最近，《中央電視臺》在電視節目和官方微博上，對「微信收費」表示支持。《央視》舉德國的「WhatsApp、Skype 等類似軟體都有收費為例，引髮網民的強烈不滿。德國網民和留德學生反駁說﹕「用WhatsApp這麼長時間了，從來就沒再收過任何費用」、而「skype是免費的，除非進行網外通話」。
也有評論人士在微博表示，中共政府有兩件武器，一個是國際慣例，一個是中國特色，視需要而決定使用哪件武器。
小韓:「你不能和其他國家比啊，我們人均收入沒有別人高啊，人家消費水平肯定比我們高，如果一定要與時俱進的話，德國還有高網速、寬網速、德國那些話費服務、流量服務都是包月服務的。」
4月7號，「中國計算機學會」在網上發表聲明，反對中國三大運營商對微信收費，受到了眾多網民和業內人士的支持。
中國計算機學會：「他存在這種雙重收費的問題，因為工信部或者是運營商已經收了網路流量費了，但是針對微信，他還要在這個基礎上收取一些其他的費用，我覺得就是雙重收費了」
三大運營商主張「微信收費」的一大理由是，3億微信用戶大量佔用了網路的所謂「信令資源」，使得基礎電信網路癱瘓，可能引發「信令風暴」。眾多業內專家則認為，微信不足以造成「信令資源」緊張，而且國外的電信運營商都是通過技術創新和加強自身網路基礎建設，解決這類問題。
中國計算機學會：「這個信令事件的話，全球也只有那麼幾例，而且至今為止，我們也沒有看到數據說明由於微信造成了它的癱瘓。我覺得這個可能是跟他的收費…可能找一些藉口吧！」
通訊專家分析，從目前網民和業內人士普遍反對「微信收費」的輿論聲浪來看，很可能最後是由三大電信運營商向「騰訊公司」收費，而不是向普通用戶收取雙重費用。
採訪編輯/張天宇 後製/葛雷
Chinese Netizens Against WeChat Users’ Fee
Recently, the hottest online topic in China is the question,
should WeChat mandate a fee on mobile messaging service.
On one hand, the Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology (MIIT) and three telecom giants insist that WeChat has to charge users.
On the other, the developer of WeChat claims
that the application will still be free.
Over 90% of Chinese netizens are against the fee,
saying they will not use WeChat if it is not free.
Scholars remark, this is a battle of monopolies and private
enterprises, and users should not be made the scapegoat.
WeChat is a mobile phone text and voice messaging
service developed by Tencent, launched on Jan 21, 2011.
Its users can send text, voice, photo or video messages
to mobile phones via Internet; it also supports group chat.
Two years since WeChat was launched in China,
and its subscribers have already exceeded 300 million.
It almost caught up with China’s three telecom giants,
which revenues have dropped sizably as a consequence.
Faced with this challenge of Tencent, a private enterprise,
the state-owned service providers whipped out their “guns”.
On Mar 31, China’s finance network Caijing.com.cn
cited words from Miao Wei, the MIIT minister.
Miao said, “WeChat will charge the users,
but only at a moderate level.”
Later another MIIT leader also told the media,
“WeChat will definitely mandate a fee; details of the charging plan are still under discussion.”
This news was then commented upon,
with numerous complaints from WeChat users.
Xiao Han, undergraduate from Hainan: ”WeChat users
are already being charged for the Internet usage.
So there should not be an additional fee
for applications.
Are the telecom companies that poor, so they came up
with such a crazy idea? I think this is simply ridiculous.”
An online survey of Xinhua showed, over 90% of netizens
say they will not use WeChat if there is a fee mandated.
Mr. Zhang, director of Beijing’ private education institution:
”Relatively speaking I do not agree with the charging plan.
There are always other free applications available,
the users don’t have to use WeChat.
If the fee is at a level that most users will stop to using it,
there will be no reason for me to stick with it too.”
Xiao Han: ”I become very angry after hearing this news.
We use applications like QQ, WeChat and social networks.
SInce first, they have many uses, and second, they are free.
If a fee is mandated then I will not use them anymore.”
Lately, the CCTV showed its support on the charging plan
both on its official microblog site, and on its TV programs.
The party’s mouthpiece claims, the users in Germany
have to pay a fee for using “WhatsApp,” “Skype,” and other messaging or telecom applications.
Chinese netizens then strongly criticized the CCTV,
saying that its “evidence” is false.
Netizens and Chinese students in Germany said, “We aren’t
charged by WhatsApp, except for application’s initial fee,”
“Skype is totally free,
unless you call someone outside its network.”
Some commented, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
uses two “weapons” as an excuse for its actions.
“International traditions,” or “Chinese characteristics,”
choosing whichever serves it better in each situation.
Xiao Han: ”You cannot compare China
with other countries (such as Germany.)
Our average income is not as high, so their levels
of consumption are higher than ours for sure.
If we really want to catch up with them, we should look
at Germany’s high-speed Internet, low-price phone service, and monthly-fee Internet usage.”
On Apr 7, China Computer Federation (CCF) made a public
announcement online, opposing China’s telecom giants fee over WeChat users.
Many netizens and industry insiders then showed
their support towards CCF’s announcement.
China Computer Federation: ”Here we have the issue
of double charge, as the MIIT or telecom service providers already charge fees by Internet usage.
Thus, if other fees are further mandated to WeChat users,
we believe this is definitely a kind of a double charge.”
China’s three telecom giants argue, the most important
“reason” for the fee is that the 300 million WeChat users consume significant signaling resources.
This paralyzes the basic telecom network,
and may even lead to “signaling storm,” they claim.
Experts however remark that WeChat is not able
to cause shortage of signaling resources by itself.
Furthermore, foreign telecom providers focus on technical
and network innovations to solve such problems.
China Computer Federation: ”Even globally, only a few
signaling resource problems have ever happened.
In addition, we have yet to see any data which proves
that WeChat really paralyzes the telecom network.
Therefore we think this may simply be an excuse
for them to charge WeChat users.”
The experts conclude, considering the strong opposition
by netizens and the industry against the charging plan,
the three telecom giants will probably charge Tencent,
rather than “double charge” the WeChat users directly.