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Originally Posted by KimoSan
Yep, no sims. I looked for quite a while and couldn't find any. You might be able to simply enable international calling but I recommend just calling Sprint and adding the international calling plan. Like I said, you can add it only for the time you'll be there and they'll prorate the price for you (I paid something like $2 for the time I was there).
And yeah, keep your calls short. $1.69/min adds up in a hurry. I was there for a week and racked up a $300 bill just for my Japan calls. Good thing it was covered by work.  |
If I have to enable international rates, I might just do it for emergency purposes and try to avoid using calls at all... The language barrier alone will make calls last quite a while
I was on a Japan Travel forum today and someone said you can't buy sim cards outright, but you can rent them (not a phone, but actual sim card)... Check it out:
http://www.softbank-rental.jp/en/phones/sim3g.php (note they have iphone and regular 3g cards for rent)
I need to find out if that softbank sim rental works with the tp2. Tp2 is w-cdma/umts compatible, but they have some bit about it not working with all smartphones... I'm also not sure if they cut off all data usage, or if they charge on a per use basis (if that's the case, that can be scary using a tp2 because it has a mind of its own when using data).