Japan may promote lower mobile phone fees -paper

TOKYO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The government will seek to introduce new guidelines on mobile phone connection fees as early as 2010, which are expected to lower rates for consumers, the Asahi newspaper reported on Thursday.

Current law does not specify a pricing model for connection fees, which carriers pay each other, and such fees are about 35 yen per three minutes, a major reason reason why domestic mobile phone fees are high, it said.

NTT DoCoMo Inc (9437.T), KDDI Corp (9433.T) and Softbank Corp (9984.T) are Japan's main mobile phone carriers. (Reporting by Yumiko Nishitani)