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For 3 months stay, portable WIFI or SIM card?
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2015/3/27 23:13
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by yvonnesudarman
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Re: For 3 months stay, portable WIFI or SIM card?
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2015/3/29 01:26
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Okay, I'll bite... For three months, the cheapest option is almost certainly a "non-tourist" b-mobile SIM card, but the drawbacks are that everything is done in Japanese (so you would need to either be somewhat proficient in Japanese yourself, or have a Japanese speaker assist you) and also payment is by card only (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) so you need to have one and also make sure it is accepted in Japan. http://www.bmobile.ne.jp/bmsim/index.htmlNote that if you are a temporary visitor (i.e., without a resident card) you can only get a data-only plan, not a data + voice one, but I suppose that's fine with you. A "locked" phone means that it can be used only with the carrier who sold it. This generally happens when you buy a phone together with a contract: the phone is heavily discounted, but on the other hand you generally have a commitment to keep the contract for a certain time, and the phone is locked. If your phone is locked, it won't work with any provider other than the one who sold it, so in particular it will not work with any of the Japanese SIM card providers. If you bought your phone "naked" (i.e., it didn't come with a SIM card and contract when you bought it), then it's almost certainly unlocked. Unlocking a locked phone is typically possible, but it may be illegal in your country. To know whether or not yor phone is locked and, if locked, can be legally unlocked, ask your carrier. If your phone is locked and cannot be unlocked, you will have to get a pocket WiFi.
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