DoCoMo's "ahamo" is eligible for family discount, President DoCoMo Ii reveals

Count ahamo lines as a family group

January 14, 2021 14:47

NTT DoCoMo will count the family discount for the new rate plan "ahamo" that will start this spring. At the beginning of the announcement, it was excluded, but the policy was changed. On the 14th, the company's president Motoyuki Ii, who responded to a group interview including this magazine, revealed.

President Ii explained, "In order to avoid catching up with other companies, we waited for each company's charges to be available and were considering the timing to clarify."

In the explanation so far, when the family switches to ahamo, for example, the number of lines to which the family discount is applied decreases from 3 lines to 2 lines. However, as the same family group, the lines that subscribe to ahamo will be counted.

However, there is a difference between ahamo and the conventional plan regarding call charges and charge discounts as family discounts.

For example, when making a call, if you call from a user who uses ahamo to your family, the flat rate will be up to 5 minutes. Conversely, outgoing calls from the same family group's Gigaho line will be free as a family call as before. The same applies to the monthly fee, and there is no discount such as a 500 yen discount as a family discount to ahamo. However, discounts are applied to the family charges of Gigaho users.

[Addition 2021/01/14 15:05] After posting the article, I added the idea about applying the family discount.