Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announces new guidelines for reducing prices for cheap smartphones September 17, 14:52
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has put together new guidelines for reducing mobile phone charges.
The aim is for a major mobile phone company to ask a cheap smartphone company to set an appropriate charge for renting a call line so that a cheap smartphone can rent a line at a low price.
Cheap smartphone companies that do not have their own calling lines rent lines from major mobile phone companies for a fee.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications saw that this fee was set at a high price and hindered competition, and on the 17th, it compiled a new guideline.
The guidelines require major mobile operators to report costs and other settings to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to ensure that the charges for renting lines are reasonable.
Regarding the charges for renting out call lines, in June, then Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Takaichi issued a ruling requesting NTT DoCoMo to reduce the charges for renting out lines to Japan Communication, a cheap smartphone company.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications aims to reduce the mobile phone charges for cheap smartphones by allowing all cheap smartphone companies to rent lines at lower rates with this new guideline.