(keitai-l) Re: GSM service

From: Renfield Kuroda <Renfield.Kuroda_at_msdw.com>
Date: 09/08/00
Message-ID: <39B894EF.592B9E30@msdw.com>
Gerhard Fasol wrote:

> Phillip Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Who are the providers and do they have agreements with other players from
> > outside Japan allowing one to use our GSM phones while in Japan?
>
> If you take a GSM cell phone into Japan it is dead - no connection.
> If you take a Japanese DoCoMo, JPhone, PHS or any other handset
> working in Japan outside of Japan it is also dead - no connection.

Not entirely true; Au global roaming handsets now work in Hong Kong, parts of the
US, etc...

r e n


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Received on Fri Sep 8 10:22:11 2000