"Cancellation reservation", which only NTT DOCOMO sticks by three major companies, has an effect on the 2nd year.

NTT DOCOMO's "AHAMO" has been highly evaluated by the Kan administration because it was provided as a simple, low price, and as a main brand's price plan.

However, if you look at the trends of NTT DOCOMO, you can see that they are not necessarily responding to the Suga administration's request.A typical example is "Canceled Restriction".

Under the revision of the Telecommunications Business Law in October 2019, the discount fee for a long -term contract called "2 -year tied" was generally 9,500 yen, but 1,000 yen.The following are regulated below.Therefore, if you switch to a plan provided after the law amendment to a plan provided after the law revision, and then cancel the line, it will be less than 1,000 yen, which is the cancellation fee of the revised plan.

However, it is the cancellation reservation that affects it.Due to the reservation of cancellations, even if the user changes to a plan after the law amendment, a long -term contract is maintained based on the plan before the law amendment, and if it is canceled before it ends, it is the same as the plan before the law amendment.It takes a cancellation fee.

For example, if you switch from the pricing plan "Kakehodai Plan" before the law to the current "Gigahodai Plan" to the current "Gigaho" or "Gigalite", you can change the plan itself for free, but the Kake -hodai plan is the same as the two -year contract period of the Kake -hodai plan.If it is maintained and canceled before the period passes, a cancellation fee of 9,500 yen will be charged.

Of course, after the plan is changed, the effect will be gone after the cancellation reservation period will be gone, and it can be canceled with a cheap cancellation fee for a new rate plan (free of charge in the case of a plan without a regular contract).However, even if you change to a new plan, you will continue to be tied up for two years, and you will not be able to easily shift to other companies' plans.

Why don't Minister Takeda point out the problem of reservations for dismissal?

Ryota Takeda is still a problem with the two -year tie -up cancellation fee in the price plan before the law revision.At a press conference on December 1, 2020, Minister Takeda revised the Electricity Communications Business Law and "Action Plan for the development of a fair competitive environment in the mobile market" released on October 27, 2020.When a reporter asked about the fees and penalty fees and penalty fees that have been transferred to the mobile phone company, the reporter asked, "It is in a sense, in a sense,".I answered.

The reason for this was that those who signed a plan before the law amendment could not reduce the burden.Among them, it includes a expensive cancellation fee tied for two years, and you can see that you have a strong awareness of the cancellation fee of the fee plan contractor before the law amendment.

For this reason, KDDI and SoftBank have exempted the cancellation reservation as a special case to encourage smooth transitions to rates plans after the law amendment.However, NTT DOCOMO alone does not show any movement to exempt from cancellation.

In fact, looking at the contents of the new rate plan "5G Gigaho Premier" and "Gigaho Premier" announced on December 18, 2020, "In October 2019, customers who are contracting for a fee plan with a regular contract.From Tuesday, 1st (Tuesday), a change to the above plan will be carried out other than the renewal period, and if the period is canceled by the month before the period expires, a cancellation fee for the plan will be charged. "You can see that even a new plan does not exempt from reserving the cancellation.

In fact, this issue has been discussed at the 20th meeting of the expert meeting of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "A Study Group on the Mobile Market Competition Environment".The person in charge of NTT DOCOMO, who was asked about the reasons for providing reservations, said, "I decided to reserve based on the concept of past contracts."Showed the idea.

For this reason, the problem of reservations of cancellation and the NTT DOCOMO's response is also known by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and Minister Takeda, who is more concerned about the height of the planned contractor before the law amendment.It seems good to mention, but at least there is no mention of being mentioned by the time of writing.I'm wondering if the minister is just overlooking or if there are other reasons, but if you look at the old plan fees as a problem, you should focus more on the problem of NTT DOCOMO's cancellation.I think it is.

Masahiro Sano

Born in Fukushima Prefecture, graduated from Tohoku Institute of Technology.After developing digital content as an engineer, he turned into a mobile phone and mobile writer.Currently, he writes in a wide range of fields related to mobile phones, from industry trends to culture.