Support for three mobile phone companies for students Partial free communication charges 12:48 on April 3
With the spread of the new coronavirus infection, universities and other organizations are conducting online classes, so three major mobile phone companies have been offering classes using mobile phone lines, such as freeing some communication charges. To support the students who receive
In order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus among universities and other organizations, there is a movement to conduct classes online, and students who do not have a fixed line of Internet at home can take classes using mobile phone lines Is expected to increase.
For this reason, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has requested that NTT Docomo, au's KDDI, and SoftBank's three major mobile phone companies provide support to such students, and each company will respond.
Specifically, if the data capacity exceeds the upper limit, an additional charge of 1000 yen per gigabyte is originally required to keep the communication speed unrestricted, but for students, the data capacity is fixed to a certain extent, free of charge. We are studying ways to increase it.
Each company plans to introduce detailed information in the near future.