Hi Giny,

"Giny@geenrotzooi_xs4all.nl" <G.speelman@geenrotzooi_xs4all.nl> writes:

> I thought of buying a new UMTS phone (which is quite expensive)

I'm just back from my first holiday to Japan. A while ago I upgraded my
phone subscription to UMTS (and got an UMTS phone thrown in for free
with my 2 year contract). I can say that my phone worked perfectly (both
for data and speech) everywhere I went in Japan. Data roaming is very
expensive though (about 14 euros per megabyte, I think).

Mind you, the idea is to get an UMTS subscription from your telco (and
an UMTS phone for little or for free to go with that subscription). Just
buying an UMTS phone without upgrading your phone plan is not going to
work!


> but now heard that there is something you can put into your own mobile
> phone so that you can use it in Japan as well.
> 
> The problem is I did not understand what that "something" is, because
> I heard it from someone who had heard it from someone else again.

No idea what that something would be. Sounds a bit like a garbled
reversed version of buying/renting a phone in Japan and using your own
SIM card in it perhaps??


Cheers,
Sander
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              Sander van Malssen -- http://www.kozmix.org/