Does the mobile phone charge low at this? Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to lower "connection fee"

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has remained high in January this yearIt is a policy to lower "connection fee (access charge)" in order to lower the call charge of mobile phoneWe talked with GIGAZINE, but it started to move concretely at last.

Is it really that mobile phone call charges go down? There seems to be various speculations of mobile phone companies in the background.

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Rules set as "connection fee" between mobile phone operators Rules formulated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - latest news: IT-PLUS

According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun news report, the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications carries out formulation of guidelines to be used as a basis for calculating "connection fee" generated when calling a line of another telephone company within this fiscal year, He seems to have strengthened its policy of seeking correspondence from people.

It is said that it is appropriate not to include operating expenses such as sales incentives in "connection fee", and there is a possibility that it will lead to a reduction in the telephone charges of mobile phones and development of new services in the future.

Asahi.com (Asahi Newspaper): Call charges go down? Models planned to lower mobile "connection fee" - Mobile phone - digital

According to the Asahi Shimbun news report, NTT docomo's 28.8 yen connection fee for mobile phone companies' phone calls in each fiscal year in fiscal 2008 was 31.5 yen for KDDI, 36.72 yen for Softbank Mobile and 29.34 yen for e-mobile It was said that it was expensive, such as being up to five times as large as 6.41 yen for NTT East / West fixed telephone.

And according to the policy of the connection fee calculation model proposed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications this time, the connection fee will be reduced by a maximum of 10% according to the policy "Do not approve sales fee, advertisement promotion expenses such as sales incentive to connection fee" However, NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, and Softbank Mobile are in a posture not to lower the call charges as the connection fee entering their company will be reduced instead of reducing the connection fee paid to other companies, as the price cut effect will be canceled It has been with.

By the way, SOFTBANK MOBILE can only use 2 GHz band radio waves with a narrow coverage area, unlike radio waves in the 800 MHz band used by NTT DoCoMo and KDDIArea construction cost is expensiveHowever, in the downtown area, because the area per base station is expanded to prevent interference between base stations,NTT DoCoMo argues that there is no difference in costThere seems to be a hot debate over, such as.

In addition, SoftBank Mobile users are free to make callsThere is connection fee income from other companies in the background to realizing "White Plan"Although there is an indication that it is pointed out, an interesting analysis is done on the following link.

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