October 23, 2004

Prepaid phones to be outlawed in Japan

The government coalition in Japan is preparing a law to outlaw prepaid mobile phones. The reason given is that too many prepaid phones are used for crimes, e.g. the "ore ore" fraud, reports fasol.

"The number of prepaid phones in Japan is very small, but it's not equally distributed. DoCoMo has almost no prepaid users, and has announced to abolish this service."

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