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Black_Beer_Man
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 Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 3:16 pm Post subject: Tourist SIM Card in Japan? |
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| A friend coming to Japan to visit wants to know if he can buy a sim card. Do you know the answer? I have no idea. |
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Mr. Leafy
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HLJHLJ
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No he can't. Even pre-pay SIMs need a contract, which needs a long term visa. However he could hire a cell
phone while he is here. There are lots of companies that offer that service if you google it, but it's not cheap. |
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Mr. Leafy
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Solar Strength
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Solar Strength
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| No he can't. Even pre-pay SIMs need a contract, which needs a long term visa. However he could hire a cell phone while he is here. There are lots of companies that offer that service if you google it, but it's not cheap. |
Is that right. I didn't know that. |
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Solar Strength
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Gajah Oling
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There's a company called bmobile through which you can get a prepaid SIM for data use (either 1GB or 14 days) which has gotten good reviews. The 1GB flavor version was recently touted by Mark Frauenfelder on Boing-Boing. He used it with a smartphone and made calls using Skype.
http://boingboing.net/2013/08/15/data-sim-cards-for-overseas-tr.html |
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