SOFTBANK announces the abolition of "Two years tied up" September 6, 12:43
A major mobile phone company, Softbank, has announced that it will abolish the so-called “two-year bond”, which is a new rate plan starting in the middle of this month.
With the new rate plan that Softbank will introduce from 13th of this month, the rate will be discounted on the condition that the contract will be continued for 2 years.
In the future, no penalty will be charged for any cancellation.
There was criticism over the two-year cell phone tie that the penalty was high and it was difficult to transfer to another company, so the country reviewed the rules, and from next month the penalty will be less than 1000 yen It is obliged to do.
For this reason, SoftBank decided that it would be more appealing to users if it had a two-year tie-down and a simple fee structure rather than continuing the penalty mechanism.
In addition to the basic fee of 980 yen, the contractor will choose a plan that can use data up to 50 gigabytes at 6500 yen per month, and the fee will be about the same as before.
This is the first time that two major mobile phone companies have abolished two years of binding, and competition in terms of fees and services is expected to intensify in the future.