On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Nick May wrote:
>
> keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
> >As of April 1, 2002, NTT DoCoMo charges all non-permanent-resident
> >foreigners a 30,000 yen deposit when signing a contract for a new phone.
> >J-Phone and AU do not have similar policies, and we consider this an
> >unfair
> >singling out of people as untrustworthy simply by dint of nationality or
> >visa status.
>
>
> While on the one hand I think this stinks, I would also be very surprised
> if a sound business case could not be made for it.
>
> Of course, a similar such case could be made for charging other "prior
> probability high risk crudely-defined-groups" a premium and does nothing
> to justify it.
Does Japan not have standard systems and agencies for credit rating? I
think you would have trouble getting a contract on a phone here in the UK
without evidence of living here for a year or so. I've not heard of the
possibility of getting around that by paying a deposit.
Received on Tue Jun 18 19:14:26 2002