X-Received: by 10.66.80.41 with SMTP id o9mr3695499pax.4.1356520482121; Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.13.130 with SMTP id h2mr6996117igc.16.1356520481864; Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:14:41 -0800 (PST) Path: news.ccsf.jp!news-haigo!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.snarked.org!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!f6no3216983pbd.1!news-out.google.com!s9ni62950pbb.0!nntp.google.com!f6no3216979pbd.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:14:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <22d11944-7a9f-4e6e-a2a7-10255d0d3e91@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=124.189.146.150; posting-account=tynvFQkAAABx9kR1U8UX9lplWGs4ZpUl NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.189.146.150 References: <22d11944-7a9f-4e6e-a2a7-10255d0d3e91@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cell Phone in Japan From: jimbreen@gmail.com Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:14:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170573 On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 09:34:14 UTC+11, John W. wrote: > I brought my cell phone (RAZR Maxx) to Japan. I know it will work, have r= eceived my little "welcome to our network" texts, etc. I have the global da= ta plan to use. Problem is, how do I dial a phone number? I haven't really = tried yet, but it's expensive to just go playing around and dialing wrong n= umbers. Will I dial it just like I would if I had a Japanese phone, or do I= dial it as if I was dialing from the US? Once you roam onto another country's network you follow the=20 dialling conventions of that network. So treat it as though you had a Japanese phone.(*) When it comes to billing, it depends on the arrangements=20 your home provider has with the network(s) you roam onto. Usually for calls to numbers in Japan you'd pay an inflated price, but less than for full international calls. I'd check with Verizon's WWW site to see what you'd pay when roaming.(**) (*) I used my Australian SIM in Japan last year. I made calls successfully as though I was using a domestic keitai. (**) In the bad old days you could cop some horrible charges. I first used an Australian mobile in the UK and France in=20 1998/99. It was OK in the UK, where there were agreements in place, but in France a local call was treated as two=20 international calls in series: Fr-> Au->Fr. Jim