[sumo] [non-sumo] cell phone rental in Japan

[Kuramarujo]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 09:58 -0500, Joe Kuroda wrote:

> I used to use a pre-paid telelphone card but more and more finding a
> public telephone booth is getting difficult as Japan is a cell phone
> obsessed country. Often the first thing you notice people do once they
> get on a train is to check their e-mail on their cell. 

	Japan was the second country to tip the cell phone/POTS scale.  Finland
was the first.  Or was it Sweden.  It was one of those Scandinavian
countries.  Anyway, both now have more cell "lines" than land lines.  I
remember when I visited Thailand in early '02.  It was funny seeing
people there with two or even three cell phones.  The US could be a lot
farther in cell penetration if it weren't for the idiotic laws and
greedy companies.

K-jo, who has yet to figure out all the neat things his RAZR can do

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Joe "Kuramarujo" Klemmer
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