On January 24th, ICT Research Institute announced the results of the "January 2022 survey on overseas comparison of smartphone charges and communication quality". The survey targets are MNOs in six countries: Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and South Korea, and the smartphone charges for each country are as of December 1, 2021. In addition, in December 2021, a web questionnaire survey was conducted for Japanese mobile phone users.
The average monthly smartphone fee is 3,538 yen for 2GB of data, 3,895 yen for 5GB, 4,614 yen for 20GB, and 7,097 yen for unlimited. Overall, the prices in Japan and the UK are low, while the prices in the US and Germany are high. Japan has the lowest monthly charges for data capacity of 2GB (1477 yen) and 20GB (2445 yen) among the 6 countries. It is the cheapest standard in.
Average smartphone price planFor comparing the communication quality of each country, we referred to Agoop survey data. As a result of the network connection rate, Japan's 4G connection rate is 99.4%, which is the highest among the six countries, and the 3G connection rate is also 0.3%. Out-of-range/time-out ratio remains at 0.3%. Japan has the highest 4G connection rate, and it can be said that the usage environment is the cheapest class.
Network connection rateRelationship between 4G connection rate and chargesIn addition, we asked Japanese mobile phone users about their "service area satisfaction", "communication speed satisfaction", and "charges". Satisfaction was asked on a 5-point scale. Users who gave positive answers accounted for 65.8% of the service area, 61.0% of the communication speed, and 48.0% of the charges. The service area and communication speed are about the same as the previous survey (July 2020), but the rate satisfaction has improved by about 10 points.
Japanese Mobile Phone User Satisfaction
