The steep cut to mobile phone charges announced by Japan’s largest wireless operator last week means that consumer price inflation may average only 1.0% next year rather than the 1.2% we had been forecasting. While the Bank of Japan will argue correctly that this is a one-off factor that it cannot do much about, price reductions will make it even more difficult to lift inflation expectations.
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