Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!netnews.mcu.or.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.albasani.net!feeder.news-service.com!postnews.google.com!m38g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: data cards in Japan Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 5 Message-ID: <9384382f-31a8-496f-86f3-01aeb23dfc7d@m38g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.240.210.219 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1313944663 27391 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2011 16:37:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m38g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.240.210.219; posting-account=d_4qMQkAAAAoC3cPt9leEr6UZXdXfvYA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ARLUEHNKC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB7.1; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170169 I was looking up the rates to rent a data card in Japan. It's unbelievably expensive, around $275 a month. How much is it to get a usb data thingee under contract from one of the major carriers? John W.