The new iPhone will also be released, and some people may be thinking about purchasing it toward the end of the year and switching carriers at that time. If you plan to cancel your MNP or the line you are currently using in December, it may be advantageous to prepare it by the end of November. This time, I will introduce the two-year contract that may still be applied and how to reduce the burden of the penalty.
If you sign up for the same rate plan by September last year, the penalties and precautions will be different.
Be careful with the two-year contract as usual. There may still be a penalty of about 10,000 yen.
Since October last year, if you make a new contract with three major carriers, SoftBank has no long-term contract in the first place, and even if you have a two-year contract with DoCoMo or au, the penalty at the time of cancellation is 1000 yen. .. However, before that, there should still be contracts that will charge a penalty of about 10,000 yen. If you continue to contract without changing anything, the two-year contract will continue, and in most cases the cancellation fee will remain at about 10,000 yen.
Moreover, in the conventional plan, the discount included when purchasing a smartphone is included in the price, and it may be set higher, so it is often the case that you will lose if you do not change the plan as it is. The most important thing to note is that if you continue the two-year contract, you will be attracted to the benefits and will renew it as it is.
The rate plan including the 2-year contract will be automatically renewed if nothing is done, and the high rate before the separation type will remain. The penalty for cancellation on the way will remain the same. In the case of au / SoftBank, there is a technique that can reduce the penalty if you change the plan, but in the case of Docomo, you can change to a plan with a penalty of 1000 yen, but the two-year contract of the plan before the change will expire. If you cancel by then, you will be charged a previous penalty of about 10,000 yen.
In other words, if you plan to cancel MNP or cancel, you need to confirm and prepare in advance.
DoCoMo should be careful about renewing the 2-year contract
DoCoMo has a system called "Thank you for renewal points" when you renew the two-year contract of the old plan, and you can get 3000 points. Moreover, the person concerned will be sent a DM that emphasizes 3000 points and encourages renewal.
With the old plan, points will be given when renewing the 2-year contract, but I want to check whether the fee is suitable for me and whether it is profitable in the first place.
If you do nothing, it will be automatically renewed, so you will get 3000 points, but the high price will remain the same. Even if you want to cancel MNP or cancel, the penalty will remain at about 10,000 yen. In the case of docomo, there are cases where the conventional plan is cheaper in the case of family discount status and "docomo with" applicable lines, so I can not say unconditionally, but when the two-year contract expires, my current usage status You should check and carefully consider whether to renew your two-year contract.
For example, the total of the previous plans "Simple Plan (smartphone)", "Xi Basic Pack (~ 1GB)" and "sp-mode" is 4180 yen per month (all below, excluding tax), and the penalty for a 2-year contract is 9500 yen. However, the current "Gigalite (~ 1GB)" costs 2980 yen (in the case of a 1-line contract), and the penalty is 1000 yen, which is significantly cheaper. Moreover, with the new plan, even without a two-year contract, the monthly cost will only increase by 170 yen. In any case, if you are using only one line, don't forget to change the plan for the renewal month.
DoCoMo's two-year contractors can cancel the contract without penalty for the three months of the month of the contract expiration month / the next month / the month after the next. If you have a contract in November 2018, November and December 2020 and January 2021 will be the months without penalty.
Penalties can be reduced! For au and SoftBank, check the plan by the previous month
With au and Softbank, even people with conventional plans can reduce MNP and cancellation penalties simply by changing to a new plan with a penalty of 1000 yen. Specifically, SoftBank's "Mini Fit Plan" and "Merihari Plan" have no penalty, and au has a penalty of 1000 yen for "Pitatto Plan (New au Pitatto Plan N)" and "Data MAX".
Therefore, if you have a conventional two-year contract and plan to cancel MNP or cancel the contract, changing the plan in advance will greatly reduce the penalty. However, the plan is applied the month after application for au and after the billing deadline for Softbank, so if you are planning MNP in December and a large penalty will be incurred due to cancellation in December, au will be a little before the end of November. , SoftBank wants to complete the application for plan change shortly before the billing deadline in November.
