<About discontinuation of acceptance of new applications for Family Wide Limit Value>
New applications for Family Wide Limit Value are no longer accepted as of March 31, 2010.

This billing plan provides savings geared for children up through junior high school age and senior citizens 60 and older.
It stops outgoing transmissions when an upper limit of dialing charges and packet communications charges is exceeded.

This is available with FOMA.

Application : Required
Basic monthly charge : ¥1,680

What’s Family Wide Limit Value?

Savings for the young and elderly

This billing plan is for children up through junior high school age and for senior citizens 60 and older.

Application for another discount is required

The Family Wide Limit Value plan requires application to one of the discounts listed below.

Outgoing communications stopped when exceeding a preset limit

When total voice and packet communications charges exceed a limit, outgoing communications are stopped.

Family Wide Limit Value with discounts

Basic monthly charge after discount: ¥840/month

Examples of Family Wide Limit Value with discounts
Family Wide Limit Value + New Ichinen Discount + Family Discount
Family Wide Limit Value + Hitoridemo Discount50
Family Wide Limit Value + Hearty Discount


noticeFor new subscriptions to New Ichinen Discount + Family Discount, the basic monthly charge for the first month after discounts are applied will be ¥1,102 for Fami-wari Wide Value, and ¥1,260 for Fami-wari Wide Limit Value.

Usage Charges

Billing plan

Basic monthly charge ¥1,680 (¥1,600 excl. tax)
Voice communications charges ¥26.25 (¥25 excl. tax)
/30 sec.
Uniform voice communications charges, regardless of distance, time of day, or day of the week
Digital communications charges
(Videophone / 64K data communications)
¥47.25 (¥45 excl. tax)
/30 sec.

About the Limit

  • Outgoing communications are stopped in less than three hours after your communications charges exceed a preset limit.
  • You can receive calls even if outgoing calls are stopped.
  • No need to worry as you can still dial emergency numbers such as 110.
  • You can raise the limit in units of ¥1,000.

Outgoing / incoming calls after exceeding the preset limit

  Outgoing Incoming Sending / receiving i-mode mail Raising / confirming the limit by i-mode
FOMA
movanotice1

notice1 Includes when using the Dual Network Service.

Features for peace of mind

Outgoing communications are stopped when a preset limit is exceeded

If the monthly usage charges exceed a preset limit, outgoing calls and packet communications including i-mode will be stopped in less than three hours.notice1notice2

  • notice1 When you are subscribed to Pake-hodai double, Pake-hodai, Pake-hodai full, or Biz-hodai, communications for which a flat-rate monthly charge applies can be used even after the limit is exceeded. (When a flat-rate monthly charge applies for i-mode communications, subscriptions to i-mode fee-based sites may be cancelled; however, information charges will be incurred at the time of cancellation if cancelling during the initial month for sites for which the initial month is provided free of charge.)
  • notice2 Outgoing communications will not be stopped in the following cases even if the limit is exceeded.
    • During the time from the evening of the last day of the month to the morning of the following day
    • During system maintenance
    • During system failures

You can receive calls even if outgoing calls are stopped

Incoming calls can still be received even if service for outgoing calls is stoppednotice3, so you need not worry about failing to take an important call. Both sending and receiving of i-mode mail will be stopped, but incoming mail during the period will be stored at the i-mode center.

notice3 Separate charges apply to receive collect calls.

You will still be able to dial emergency numbers such as 110

Calls to inquire about repairs (113) and Limit Service Center (8187, prompts in Japanese only), etc. will still be possible in addition to calls to police (110) or fire/ambulance (119).notice4

notice4 If the limit is exceeded, of the Alarm- and Emergency alarm-linked functions included in Kids PHONE and Raku-Raku PHONE IV, the service that automatically transmits voice calls to the registered number cannot be used.

You can reset the limit to a higher amount whenever you need

Service will be reactivated if the limit becomes larger than the monthly usage charge after raising the limit. You will need your network PIN (four digits) and Limit password (six digits) in those cases.notice5

notice5 The limit can be increased in increments of ¥1,000 up to ¥9,000 per request. The limit cannot be lowered for just the month in which the request is made. The limit can only be increased from a DOCOMO mobile phone (special phone number or i-mode).

You can choose a function that prevents the limit from being raised

By using this service, the limit will be prevented from being raised even if the Limit password becomes known to someone other than the person in charge of raising the limit. Therefore you can use Family Wide Limit Value with peace of mind.

Function preventing raising the limit This is a service that allows customers to suspend raising the limit by disabling the Limit password.

noticeYou will be billed for any communications charges that are incurred after the limit is exceeded until service for outgoing communications is stopped. In some cases, charges will be incurred after service for outgoing communications is suspended (for example, when a site connection is not completed or i-mode mail sending procedures are interrupted).

How to check and set a preset limit

Introduction to the limit functions to check and raise the preset limit, and the procedure to change the limit password

Eligibility for This Service

  • For children up through junior high school age (up to the end of March following the user’s 15th birthday)
  • For senior citizens 60 and older (following the 60th birthday)
  • There are no age restrictions for Hearty Discount subscribers.notice1notice2
  • notice1 Subscriptions to the New Ichinen Discount are not available to current Hearty Discount subscribers.
  • notice2 Some conditions apply for Hearty Discount application. For details, see Hearty Discount.
  • noticeEither the Family Wide Value or Family Wide Limit Value service is available to one line per eligible customer.

Notes

  • Call Forwarding Service
  • Toll Free Number Service
  • WORLD WING
  • WORLD CALL
  • Mzone
  • Call Unit Display Service
  • Some menus in Various applications/procedures (Various applications/procedures)
  • Long-Term Subscriber Discount
  • Option Pack Discount
  • imadoco search (searching party)
  • Volume Discount
  • Yu Yu Call bonus (communications allowances given to the called party)
  • 400 free packets under previous mova billing plans
  • When there are changes to the details regarding eligibility for application such as the name of the subscriber eligible for Family Wide Limit Value, please inform DOCOMO. If you do not inform DOCOMO, and we discover there has been a change, we may change Family Wide Limit Value to Type Limit Value (+¥800 option).
  • The billing plan will be transferred to Type Limit Value (+¥800 option) from April 1 after a child subscriber’s 15th birthday. In this case, New Ichinen Discount will be continued and the discount rate will change according to the length of use (except for Hearty Discount subscribers).
  • If a relevant subscriber applies for Family Wide Limit Value or Family Wide Value on more than one line, after we have confirmed the application to more than one line, all the lines apart from the line on which he/she first applied will be changed from Family Wide Limit Value to Type Limit Value (+¥800 option) and Family Wide Value to Type SS Value.

View an explanation on notes on limit functions that prevent overuse.

noticeAmounts listed include consumption tax. Please note that for the actual bill the amount of the tax is calculated from the total of individual items excluding tax so the billing amount may differ from the total of individual items including tax.

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