NTT DoCoMo reduces interconnection fees

Japan’s leading mobile operator by subscribers NTT DoCoMo notified the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications that it is cutting the fees it charges other telecommunications operators to interconnect with its network.

The rates, which will be effective March 4 will be applied retroactively to all interconnections made since April 2009, it said.

The revised fees for calls made within the same service area have been cut 15.6 percent from JPY0.160 per-second to JPY0.135, while interconnection fees for calls between different service areas have been reduced by 13.3 percent from JPY0.180 per-second to JPY0.156.