Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Sryn" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Gaijin Friendly Keitai Phones Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:23:44 +0800 Lines: 40 Message-ID: <2mbi6eFkp0beU1@uni-berlin.de> References: <1gh9htw.104n22y10sr7ggN@yahoobb219000172032.bbtec.net> <73fde4f0.0407221002.5cace212@posting.google.com> <1ghcz1x.wsvz671nil0u6N@yahoobb219000172025.bbtec.net> <2mauuvFl9iqlU1@uni-berlin.de> <_KXLc.95235$0r.75366@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com> <2mb0v6Fl3no0U1@uni-berlin.de> X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de JllRzx/b6z1xDMfzpbuQnw3AJj+UJgnHKw5nHKTGvyDPATvUs5 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:15698 "Ryan Ginstrom" wrote in message news:2mb0v6Fl3no0U1@uni-berlin.de... > necoandjeff wrote: > > "Ryan Ginstrom" wrote in message > > news:2mauuvFl9iqlU1@uni-berlin.de... > >> Matthew Endo wrote: > >>> The hardest thing is to part with my phone number. Although it's > >>> not the greatest or most memorable, it's been mine for a long time. > >>> > >>> Wish they had number portability here. > >> > >> DoCoMo does at least, although it costs money. > > > > How can only one company do it? I think portability refers to being > > able to take the phone number with you to and from different carriers. > > That is probably not possible. But when you change phones (with the same > carrier), you can keep your same phone number, for a fee. I know this is > true with DoCoMo and J-Phone, but I have no experience with other carriers > (and have only actually done it with DoCoMo). > > > -- > Regards, > Ryan Ginstrom > I upgraded my keitai twice (1999 & 2000) in Japan and J-Phone never charged me any 'upgrading' fee, except the subsidised price for those keitais. I once tried to change plans (1995) within Vodafone in UK (after the contracted two years) and they said I have to pay some charge (above a 100 quids). Sryn sryn@yahoo.DELETETHIS.com