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The Ministry of Cybermedia Industry and Information Technology will officially issue the virtual operator license before the Spring Festival

  

The virtual merchants who should have completed the pilot and obtained the official license in 2016 are still at the stage of "streaking" without license plates after the pilot extension. However, during the Spring Festival this year, it is expected to solve the problem of virtual merchants operating without license plates for a year.

According to netizens, the State Council will approve matters related to the official mobile resale license before the Spring Festival and open the application window after the year. After that, the virtual merchants can apply to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will issue official licenses to the virtual merchants after review and approval.

Previously, the author mentioned in the article "The official license of virtual merchants may be extended to the next year" released in June 2016. Because of the real name system, the official license of mobile resale business may be extended to the next year. The regulatory authorities will decide which one to obtain the license according to the real name system registration and business development of virtual merchants.

In the second half of 2016, the issuance of the official license of virtual merchants also conformed to the author's point of view, and the official license of virtual merchants was delayed again and again due to the real name system.

The real name system concerns the issuance of official licenses

At the end of 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology piloted the introduction of virtual operators to activate the vitality of the telecommunications industry. In the two years of the pilot program, virtual merchants have achieved initial results. Users have enjoyed the dividends of telecom development and reform due to the unclear traffic, no roaming, and zero monthly rent.

However, during the pilot period, virtual merchants also faced problems such as telecom fraud, wholesale and retail reverse, interconnection, real name registration, etc. In particular, after the Xu Yuyu case, the virtual merchants were on the cusp of the storm.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also said that it would further strengthen the supervision and management of virtual operators, and take the implementation of the real name system as a veto item for virtual operators to apply for expanding business scope, increasing code number resources, and issuing formal business licenses. Virtual operators who violate the real name system will be dealt with seriously and will not be tolerated. Before their rectification is put into place, they will not be approved for business access, code number verification, expansion of business scope, etc; If the circumstances are serious, the corresponding basic telecom enterprise will be required to suspend the use of the code number resources that have been approved; The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will resolutely investigate and deal with those who fail to make effective rectification and repeatedly violate the regulations, until their relevant qualifications are cancelled.

In the reply to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "Suggestions on Instructing Virtual Operators to Implement the Mobile Phone Real Name System in Section 170" (No. 9441, the fourth session of the 12th National People's Congress), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that for virtual operators that operate in accordance with the law, implement real name registration in place, and have a good social response, they should open a green channel in accordance with the law when they are officially commercially available, and increase support for code resources. In addition, the implementation of the real name system of virtual operators is regularly reported to basic telecom enterprises, requiring them to investigate the implementation of real name registration when cooperating with virtual operators.

It can be seen that the real name system has become the most important condition for virtual merchants to obtain licenses, who can obtain licenses the fastest and obtain more code resources.

The Matthew effect of the virtual business market intensifies: some virtual businesses will die

In fact, the development of virtual business has shown a trend of two-level differentiation since the virtual business started its business. Only a few months after taking the lead in virtual businesses, they have gained millions of users. At the same time, some virtual businesses still have only 10000 users.

If, according to the pilot plan, virtual merchants can obtain official licenses by the end of 2015, then some virtual merchants with weak business development should be delisted long ago. When the domestic pilot project was launched, regulators and basic operators had relevant plans for the delisting of virtual merchants.

However, the delay in issuing official licenses has allowed these enterprises that should have been delisted to survive now because of the extension of the pilot period. However, with the issuance of official license plates for virtual merchants, reshuffle and delisting will be inevitable.

At the same time, the policy red line of the real name system will further intensify the Matthew effect of the virtual business market. At present, the problem of the real name system of virtual merchants has become an objective fact. Whether the real name system can be effectively implemented has a bearing on the sustainable development of resale enterprises in the future. resale enterprises must effectively increase the control of the real name system audit from the organizational structure, performance assessment, channel management and other aspects. These require enterprises to invest a lot of manpower and material costs to achieve 100% real name system.

However, due to the scale effect of the telecommunications industry, only the virtual merchants with the highest market scale can make profits and have the ability to continuously invest in the real name system. This means that only the leading virtual merchants can achieve 100% real name system, thus obtaining official licenses