"Dan Rempel" <drempel@islandnet.com> wrote in message 
news:0fae69b618c6099c7ba40aeca1858d61@grapevine.islandnet.com...
> thegoons wrote:
>
> [buncha snippin]
>
>> My understanding reading all the telco websites is that a gaijin card is 
>> now
>> required. I asked my friend in Japan to purchase and acticate a cheap
>> Vodafone prepaid handset purchased from a convenience store for less than
>> 4,000 yen + 3,000 yen call credit card. NTT DoCoMo have discontinued 
>> their
>> "Precall" prepaid service. I believe Vodafone and KDDI (both their "au"
>> brand and "Tu-ka" brand) still have prepaid offerings but require
>> gaijin-card to purchase (passport alone not acceptable).
>
> I'm quite sure you're right; I'm just going to get a friend to buy a
> phone and pay her when I arrive.

I see that Vodafone Japan (prepaid) now allow online credit card recharges. 
But, like all Japanese companies, they have a long and complicated process 
and way of explaining it: http://www.vodafone.jp/prepaid_en/recharge/


>
> Dan
>
> --
> He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
> -- Jonathon Swift 


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