Recently, Xiaomi and other companys have obtained the virtual operator licenses from China Telecom, and will provide customers with personalized services with the integration of tariff in the future.
For Xiaomi itself, the virtual operator can provide more package price options, a variety of value-added services and a greater degree of freedom. As for the smartphones, Xiaomi can launch a more flexible mobile phone-purchasing package policy; at the same time, it can bind the tariff quota with the value-added services of its various software that in integration with the mi-coins; and the free charge of traffics with its social, video and music software and so on.
If Xiaomi could take advantage of these strategies, it could seal the last ring in the charges of mobile phones. Integrated with its own independent app store, independent closed synchronization system of multifarious devices, Xiaomi actually has created an independent kingdom.
Foxconn, Lenovo, Hisense, Haier and other ones also obtained the virtual operator licenses from China Telecom.