DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post

**WaydayFep** · 11-16-2006, 10:06 PM

There are two things though they can be the same. It just depends. You can have a phone card which is a plastic card about the size of a credit card which has a code you have to enter every time you use the phone (much like a calling card) but those are unpopular and rare. What I was talking about was actually having two simm chips one for where you normally live and one for your business destination (say Japan).

If you use your regular American account/simm chip then you will get smacked in the head with giant roaming charges for using your phone in Japan. You can instead buy a pre-paid simm chip in Japan (with say $50, $100, or $200 worth of air time) and put that chip in your phone so you'd pay local rates instead of roaming rates. Once you change the chip you'd be a NTT-DoCoMo (or who ever) customer where as once you put your old simm chip back in then you'd once again be on your old provider.

The phone company is tracking the usage on that simm chip, not the phone, so if you switch simms then you are switching the phone account as far as the provider is concerned.

11-16-2006, 10:06 PM	#7
WaydayFep Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 520 Senior Member	There are two things though they can be the same. It just depends. You can have a phone card which is a plastic card about the size of a credit card which has a code you have to enter every time you use the phone (much like a calling card) but those are unpopular and rare. What I was talking about was actually having two simm chips one for where you normally live and one for your business destination (say Japan). If you use your regular American account/simm chip then you will get smacked in the head with giant roaming charges for using your phone in Japan. You can instead buy a pre-paid simm chip in Japan (with say $50, $100, or $200 worth of air time) and put that chip in your phone so you'd pay local rates instead of roaming rates. Once you change the chip you'd be a NTT-DoCoMo (or who ever) customer where as once you put your old simm chip back in then you'd once again be on your old provider. The phone company is tracking the usage on that simm chip, not the phone, so if you switch simms then you are switching the phone account as far as the provider is concerned.
	Quote