According to China Mobile’s announcement,Five products including Monternet's short-term lottery business, Hesheng Life, and Mobile Market were officially offline at 24:00 on April 30 and related services were stopped.Among them, Monternet's short-term lottery business across the entire network is the last core business still running under the "Monternet" system. This shutdown also means that China Mobile's "Moneternet" has officially withdrawn from the stage of history.
Monternet was born in 2000.It is a mobile data service brand launched by China Mobile during the transition stage from 2G to 2.5G. Its English name is Montenet (Mobile+Internet).
In the era of feature phones, it was one of the main entrances for mobile phone users to access the Internet.
At that time, Monternet integrated SMS, MMS, WAP Internet access and early mobile games and other services, building one of the earliest mobile Internet ecosystems in China, and also spawned the rapid development of the SP/CP value-added business model.
At its peak, its monthly active users were close to 100 million, and its influence cannot be underestimated.
However, with the popularity of smartphones and the evolution of 3G, 4G and even 5G networks, users have gradually turned to app stores and various native apps, and WAP portals and related services have rapidly declined.
In recent years, the Montnets system has continued to shrink and gradually faded out of the mainstream.
From the entrance to the era of feature phones to the “marginal role” in the era of smartphones,The curtain call of Monternet is more like a natural result of a period of technological evolution.
The text messages and WAP memories it carried ultimately stayed in the 2G era.