Who moved my traffic?

A user's complaint that the operator "stealing traffic" eventually proved to be an Oolong that had been installed by a third-party traffic monitoring software, and that the operator was innocent. However, the cause of this concern has drawn widespread attention. First, users lack trust in operators, and second, there are still many areas where flow usage is still not well understood. A few days ago, the reporter interviewed several technical experts responsible for billing of the Beijing Unicom Informatization Department. Experts gave an analysis of these phenomena and gave advice on how to reduce unnecessary traffic losses.

Operators can't move hands on the billing. Experts say that the length of time the user is making a call, or the IP address of the mobile phone's Internet access, and how much traffic is generated will be recorded on the switch. The operator's billing system captures the traces of the switch, pre-processing bills, standardization, billing, billing, and detailed billing, and finally forms a one-month bill. This process is like shopping, the exchange is a scale, and the billing system is a calculator. The scale - the switch is currently also provided by several well-known manufacturers in the world, as the user's operator is no technical ability to change the switch data, which is the manufacturer's core intellectual property rights, and the change of the manufacturer does not benefit their own interests.

In the charging process, operators have a powerful hardware platform and specialized software to carry the billing system. For the demand for double-month rolling of traffic, after the billing department developed the software, it set up a very complete testing platform and deployed it through rigorous testing and business verification. There is also a very strict process to ensure accurate billing. For example, a complete monitoring system monitors all applications and automatically reports anomalies. In addition, there is a very strict auditing system that is an end-to-end audit of the entire process. In addition, each year the government's competent authorities and independent third-party agencies check the entire billing process, which is a strict inspection from the time it is on the switchboard to the final billing process.

From a disciplinary point of view, there are also unusually strict systems and perfect closed-loop management. Once a mistake is made in billing, it is a big accident for them. The emphasis is on criminal responsibility, and the company is severely punished. If operators can do fake, then staff can enjoy free calls? In fact, this is truly a fantasy.

All kinds of situations will bring traffic "flying."

Why did that flow feel like running fast? Experts think that there may be the following situations: For example, "This application can access your location information even if it is running in the background", "Please clean up the background running program regularly"... For this reminder, many users do not understand the reason, nor Understand how to operate. After we finish using an application on a mobile phone, pressing the Home button to exit actually minimizes the program. It does not actually close the program. It is still running in the background that we cannot see, and we are still running the traffic. Even if it is turned off and then turned on, these background programs will still run automatically.

How can we actually close the application? When exiting the application software on the smart phone, try to use the “exit” option that comes with the software menu instead of simply exiting the operation interface or periodically clearing the background running program. How to clean up? Apple's mobile phone is double-click the Home button, and then the windows on the screen crossed out one by one. Other mobile phones enter the task manager according to the operation method of the used smart phone, find an application that has been used but is still running in the background, and forcibly stop the application to ensure complete exit. Experts believe that it is best to clean up the background program every day, such as cleaning up once leaving the WiFi environment. Often cleaning up not only saves traffic, but also makes the phone run faster. By turning off cellular mobile data before going to bed at night, there will be no traffic at night.

There are users who spit, I obviously use the WiFi network, but why this period also generated traffic? Some mobile phones will intelligently choose WiFi network or mobile network, which signal is easy to use. At present, many smart phones have such functions, and we cannot pay attention to them at all. Apple's iOS9 version of the "Wireless LAN Assistant" feature also automatically uses the cellular mobile network when the WiFi signal is weak. As a result, foreign users have lost a lot of mobile traffic, and this has brought Apple to court. This feature is hidden deep, you want to close to enter iOS 9 "settings", in the "cellular mobile network" to the bottom, see "Wireless LAN Assistant", click Close. In addition, some dual SIM dual standby mobile phones will also intelligently select the operator's network, so users must also pay attention.

Some mobile phones often pop up several boxes, such as "Allow access to your location information?", "Allow access to your location information during the use of the program", "I want to send you a push notification" and the like, many users Customary permission allows users to feel that they are not using this program if they do not clean up background running programs. This not only wastes traffic but also consumes electricity. Therefore, experts remind users to turn off data push and automatic update functions in various application settings, use manual update control, and manually update when they need to be queried. In addition, turn off the automatic sending and receiving of mobile emails.

Some people laughed that the "Eleventh" Golden Week's circle of friends is the travel photography contest show, seven days off, while walking side show feel so cool, unconsciously, after the autumn accounts flow is also used very "acid cool." Many people say that there are more and more groups in WeChat. Even if you don't often chat and grab red envelopes in various groups, and when you open WeChat, the red marks on the corners of the group are particularly eye-catching. The red mark is traffic!

"Double 11" is approaching, and the pre-sale of Taobao has started one month ahead of schedule. Many shopping professionals have begun to use Taobao on various pieces of time. Technical experts told reporters that opening up Taobao will consume a lot more traffic than Wechat because each Taobao page contains a large number of pictures.

The faster the internet speed, the smarter the mobile phone, and the less traffic the 4G era has used, many users feel that their traffic is becoming more and more useless.

The speed of Internet is getting faster and faster. Everyone has a high efficiency in brushing mobile phones. For example, a Taobao website can be opened within three to five minutes before. Now it can be opened in less than one minute. The content browsed in the same period of time grows exponentially, and natural traffic is becoming insufficient. use. In the past, sending videos, watching videos, and playing video calls on mobile phones was rare, but now it is very common. The circle of friends broadcasts live videos, and videos of various news and interesting events have gradually increased. Even advertisements are often h5 animations. It's not that the traffic tyrants can't stand it.

In addition, the mobile phone resolution is different, the traffic used to open the same web page or picture is also different, the higher the resolution, the more expensive the traffic.

The technical experts talk about these pits. The reporters are basically all in the middle. What about you?

With the popularization of 4G, people use mobile phone traffic more and more. How to allow users to use it with confidence, operators still have a lot of work to do, and the media also needs to strengthen publicity, so that users can better use mobile phones and more rationally. The use of traffic should not make irresponsible and sensational reports deepen the contradiction between the two.