Tips for cheapening the monthly payment of your phone

2022.08.06

Tips for cheapening the monthly payment of your phone

Nowadays, a lot of people make a contract with Docomo, Softbank, au, or RakutenMobile for using smartphones or cellphones. Why don’t you try to your monthly payment cheaper? Today, let’s learn how to make it cheaper!

As you know, monthly payment of smartphone is mainly composed of calling charges, internet charges, optional charges, and device fees. Therefore, monthly payment can become cheaper by reviewing those fees.

 

Switch to a cheaper SIM card

Calling charges vary greatly depending on the carriers. In general, the call charges of major mobile phone companies are relatively high. Therefore, the monthly fee can become considerably cheaper by switching to cheaper carrier.

A cheaper carrier provides low-cost Internet and calls by borrowing the lines of major carriers such as Docomo, au, and SoftBank. For example, RakutenMobile, UQmobile, Y!mobile, ahamo, etc. These SIMs are relatively cheap, and the Internet is relatively stable.

There are also a lot of cheap SIMs such as AEON Mobile, LINEMO, IIJmio, mineo, etc.

 

Change monthly contract

At first, let’s check your contract. You can check your monthly fees by using services such as My docomo, My Softbank, My au. As for calling fees, you may be able to save money by changing your calling plan from a plan with unlimited calls to more suitable plan for you. These days, many people use SNS such as LINE for phone call. If you use SNS for phone calls, you may not need unlimited call plan. Please check wether your calling plan is suitable for you.

 

Terminate optional services

Let’s check whether your contract includes unnecessary optional plans.

For example,  optional plans can be related to entertainment as unnecessary. You may have these plans because those plans are often free in the first monthly fee and shop staffs usually recommend them. Let’s check which optional plans are unnecessary for you and terminante unnecessary plans. As for the guarantee option of smartphone, please consider whether it is needed or not depending on your necessity. If you want to buy a new phone, you may terminate the guarantee option.

 

Make the phone cheaper

If you buy your smartphone at a mobile shop, you can choose payment methods; pay all at once or devided payment. When you choose devided payment, monthly payment become higher because you have to additionaly pay device charges every month. pay both mobile phone bill and mobile device charge. If you buy only SIM card and use a second-hand device, you may be able to pay less. Also, these days, some carriers offer device charge for free. Please go to shops and ask staffs about those smartphones.