"nat" <nwic////@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message 
news:dvmkvj$17cs$1@news3.infoave.net...
> "kuri" <cc@dotmel.cam> wrote in message
> news:dvgf3p$r1d$1@bgsv5648.tk.mesh.ad.jp...
>> The problem is if
>> you don't use your card telephone for a number of monthes, they cancel 
>> the
>> line. Then you have to repay 10000 yen (and regive a proof of adress) to
> get
>> a new number and use it again.
>
> Well, you have to buy a 3000 yen prepaid every 8 months, that is not that
> expensive.
>
> I bought my prepaid phone for less than 7000 yens (including the 3000 yen
> card) two months ago at Vodaphone Shinjuku, I don't know why it was this
> inexpensive. On the same day I saw the very same Vodaphone prepaid phone 
> for
> more than 7000 yens (3000 yen card NOT included). It is a mistery but it
> works fine with me!
>
>

Funny how Japan is the most backward and visitor-unfriendly country when it 
comes to mobile phones, purchasing prepaid phones, roaming in Japan, sending 
SMS overseas etc. Only a lunatic would set up such an isolated system. 


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