Mobile phone charges To new rule report such as reduction of penalty when canceling midway August 23 17:51
The expert meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications compiled a report on the new rules for mobile phone charges that will be applied this fall. Incorporating each company with a penalty of ¥ 1,000 or less when canceling a 2-year contract is included.
The expert meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has been discussing new rules for mobile phone charges following the enactment of a law that requires the separation of communication charges and terminal charges.
In order to encourage the transfer to other companies in the report on the 23rd, the penalty for canceling a 2-year contract will be reduced from the current 9500 yen to 1000 yen or less.
In addition, discounts such as points for preferential treatment of long-term subscribers are limited to one month of communication charges per year, and the upper limit of discounts for terminal charges is 20,000 yen, etc. Was also included.
The new rules will apply to three major companies, NTT Docomo, KDDI, and Softbank, as well as Rakuten, which is entering the market, as well as major cheap smartphone operators.
Professor Noboru Kawamata of Kyoto University Graduate School, who serves as the chairman of the Council of Experts, said at the press conference: Because it will change, I will continue to verify it in the future. "
In the future, proposals will be submitted to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, and then new tariff rules will be applied from this fall after amendments to the Ministerial Ordinance.