Review of SoftBank large-capacity rate plan Review of plans below 5,000 yen October 13, 18:27
It turned out that Softbank, a major mobile phone company, is reviewing the large-capacity rate plan and is considering introducing a new plan with a monthly charge of less than 5,000 yen.
As Prime Minister Suga shows a strong desire to reduce mobile phone charges, it seems that he is aiming to respond by introducing a new plan.
Prime Minister Suga has shown a strong desire to reduce prices by meeting with Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Takeda on the 13th over mobile phone charges.
In response to this, NTT DoCoMo, au's KDDI, and Softbank's three major companies take the request from the government seriously and are ready to review the current charges.
Of these, according to the people concerned, it was found that SoftBank is reviewing the so-called large-capacity rate plan that uses a large amount of data and is considering introducing a new plan that costs less than 5,000 yen per month.
Currently, large-capacity plans that exceed 2 GB and up to 50 GB are priced at 7480 yen per month, excluding various discounts such as family discounts.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has pointed out that there are many countries overseas where the monthly fee is less than 5,000 yen at 20 gigabytes, and Japan is expensive, and it seems that SoftBank aims to respond to the request for price reduction by introducing a new plan. ..
Softbank plans to officially announce a new rate plan as soon as possible, and it is likely to affect the review of rates for NTT DoCoMo and KDDI.