携帯値下げ、広がりに期待　ドコモ新プラン受け武田総務相

　武田良太総務相は４日の閣議後記者会見で、ＮＴＴドコモが来年３月に始める割安な新料金プラン「ａｈａｍｏ（アハモ）」について、「市場に競争を導く大きなきっかけになる」と歓迎する意向を強調した。その上で「同業他社も注視しており、それぞれの経営判断で適切に運用してほしい」と述べ、ＫＤＤＩやソフトバンクへの値下げの波及に期待を示した。（2020/12/04-16:08）

Japanese communications minister Ryota Takeda voiced on Friday his hopes that moves to reduce smartphone plan fees will spread even further.
   Speaking at a press conference, Takeda welcomed NTT Docomo Inc.'s new low-cost plan, called ahamo, which will begin in March next year.
   The new plan "will serve as a major opportunity to induce competition in the market," he said.
   "With rival companies watching the news closely, we hope that they operate their businesses adequately on the basis of their own business judgments," he added, voicing hopes that moves to reduce such fees will spread to the other mobile phone carriers KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. .
   NTT Docomo announced that it will release a new 20-gigabyte smartphone plan at 2,980 yen per month. The ahamo plan will be over 4,000 yen cheaper than NTT Docomo's current 30GB plan costing 7,150 yen a month.