[cheap smartphone summary] it is difficult to fight against the "20 GB+2980 yen" MVNO cheap SIM, requiring the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take urgent measures

　This series, along with the major cheap SIM fee tables (this time data SIM), summarizes the trends of the week related to cheap SIM and SIM free phones. Last week, MVNO's industry group asked the Ministry of General Affairs to take urgent measures to combat the difficulties of new MNO charges, so as to achieve fair competition.

For MVNO, it is difficult to achieve the plan with the current connection fee and voice wholesale amount.

It is difficult for MVNO to fight against the new cost of MNO in the current connection fee. The Ministry of General Affairs requires the implementation of emergency measures.

　The three major operators are scheduled to start a new fee plan of "20 GB+2980 yen" in March. The 20 GB per month plan is not much in MVNO's cheap SIM, but it is basically much lower than the level charged by cheap SIM. In addition, KDDI's "sub-brand" UQ mobile has also implemented price cuts. The cheapest "Korikoshi Plan S" is 3 GB (more than 300kbps) at 1480 yen per month, which is also cheaper than many cheap SIM settings.

　Among them, the MVNO Committee of the General Association of Corporate Telecommunications Services, as an industry group of communication operators, submitted explanatory materials to the "Research meeting on the calculation of connection fees" held by the Ministry of General Affairs on January 19th. Among them, MVNO in the current connection fee and wholesale fee is very difficult to fight against the new cost plan, originally expressed doubt that the connection fee and wholesale fee is not appropriate.

Calculate the GB unit price of the new cost plan, which is claimed to be lower than the cost of connecting to MVNO

In the connection fee in terms of frequency band, a large frequency band is needed in order to provide service with the same line quality as MNO, and the unit price of GB becomes higher accordingly.

　The airwaves, as rare assets, are allocated to build large operators (two designated operators) in the company to provide mobile communication services. NTT DoCoMo,KDDI, Softbank Corp., Okinawa Honeycomb, Wireless City Plan, UQ Communications), have an obligation in principle to respond to operators' wish to connect to each other (MVNO), the connection fee at that time "appropriate cost plus appropriate profit", it is necessary to inform the Minister of General Affairs.

　If the connection fee is close to the cost, the new program started by MNO and the same level of fees / content can also provide services, but it is actually very difficult to design the plan on the basis of ensuring the quality of MNO and the same level. In addition, the unit price of each GB is estimated based on the cost of the new plan. MVNO claims that it is much lower than the estimated GB unit price based on the data connection fee for MVNO.

　Ministry of General Affairs, the cost calculation method has introduced the "future cost method" of cost reduction in the future, with the target of a 50% reduction in the three years from 2020. the MVNO side promotes this goal in advance and further reduction, in the case of efforts to take time. Lower connection fees are required as an emergency measure.

Optimize communication charges in advance and take urgent measures if time is needed

Although it is not mentioned in this article, even if it is floating on the cost of voice wholesale doctors, it also requires further reduction and immediate application, or release the automatic assignment function of prefix numbers in advance.

　In any case, due to the strong promotion from the government, the new fees and price reductions of MNO moving towards realization have undoubtedly caused great harm to the competitiveness of MVNO. It is necessary not only to modify the calculation method of connection fees, but also to propose the ground design of the competitive environment of the whole mobile market.

Popular cheap data communication service around 1000 yen per month (all excluding tax) (SIM with voice calls click on the past part)

The popular cheap data communication service is 1500 to 2000 yen per month (all excluding tax)

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