June 30, 2020 Survey on Differences in Telecommunications Service Charge between Domestic and Overseas Markets

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) surveys differences in telecommunications service charges between domestic and overseas markets every fiscal year to grasp the state of telecommunications service charges appropriately.
  MIC has recently summarized the FY2019 survey results and decided to make the survey results public.

1. Survey targets

MIC surveyed mobile phone, FTTH, and landline services in six cities: Tokyo, New York, London, Paris, Düsseldorf, and Seoul.

2. Survey method

MIC collected mobile phone, FTTH, and fixed-line phone charges based on public information, and compared monthly charges^*1 and model charges^*2.

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  Including basic charges, calling charges, communications charges, and expenses for subscription/moving that are specified by each business operator in the terms and conditions for users.
• *2
  The total monthly payments required according to a usage mode (model) based on the number of communications, call time, number of emails sent and received, and data traffic, to compare the communication charges in each city.

3. Survey result

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  The published material is in Japanese only.