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06-29-2009, 01:08 PM
I'm in Japan at the moment and a friend and I just went to try to buy him a new phone model (his is 2G and new is 3G) today and transfer his EXISTING personal pre-paid keitai account to a new phone. Without an alien registration card he could not do it. Period.
He already got the same story at the phone stores in Narita airport too.
The only thing he could do was to buy minutes for the existing phone. (And the LOCAL rate is jacked up on that DoCoMo phone to 90Y a minute). As soon as that phone account which he owns lapses (the service contract expires because he is not renewing the minutes cards) ..... his phone becomes a useless piece of junk (just like mine did in 2007).
My rentafonejapan cell I'm using here is only 45Y a minute to the USA. A bit expensive at 35Y a minute local..... bit that is still way less than most plans.
best,
..................john
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