NTT Docomo, a phone carrier in Japan, with more than 100 million mobile subscribers, decided to make an interesting move starting next April (when the fiscal year starts in Japan). It seems the carrier with 55 million customers will offer SIM-free mobile phones starting next year. The move came after Japan's Communications Ministry said it will be good if phone carriers would sell SIM-free mobile phones.

This kind of plan can prove to be a failure, because a user can now buy cheaper phones from a carrier, and move to the other right away, without any problem. Anyway, Docomo's stock at the Tokyo Stock Exchange climbed from 2.600 yen to 139.600 yen in just a day. Impressive, would we say. But what will Docomo win after this move? That's a question journalists from Japan ask themselves. At a first glance, this is in every user's favour, not in the companies one.

Via MobileCrunch