The Fair Trade Commission is investigating "0 yen advertisement" of SOFTBANK MOBILE

Talk to TV commercials etc "0 Yen"And"¥ 0Although such advertisements are deployed, various conditions are necessary and it is a character which is too small to read it, so accusations are concentrated from every direction, but finally the "Fair Trade Commission" It is said that it moved.

Details are as follows.
FTC: Investigating SOFTBANK's "0 yen" advertisement for landscape law violations - Company: MSN Daily Interactive

Fair Trade Commission Homepage
http://www.jftc.go.jp/

It seems to be investigating with suspicion of prejudice labeling law violation, but it seems to be "misleading advantage" within it.

Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Indication Prevention Act

There is this in Article 4 paragraph 2.

Because general consumers misunderstand the price or other terms and conditions of goods or services as being more advantageous to the counterparties of the transaction than the actual ones or those pertaining to other businesses competing with the business, An indication that we believe there is a risk of unfairly attracting customers and impeding fair competition

First of all, I can not read it. It is a cautionary note that it looks like the garbage on the bottom left. Expanding and stabbing it could somehow be readable ...... Maybe ...

Softbank Corporation(Guide slide show)


On the contrary, there are many cases where it is not really cheap actually.

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DoCoMo's president is also angry.

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What will happen? According to one theory, rumors that an abnormality occurred in the previous system of number portability also prevents escape from SOFTBANK MOBILE also flows on the Internet.

Slashdot Japan | Failure occurred in SOFTBANK MOBILE MNP system