{"id":9344,"date":"2010-03-30T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2010-03-30T18:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:25:29","slug":"japan-may-be-using-standard-sim-card-for-all-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/japan-may-be-using-standard-sim-card-for-all-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan May Be Using Standard SIM Card for All Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the first time I visited Japan, I could not use my phone. To be able to use mobile phone, we would need to borrow a Japanese phone in Singapore and redirect your phone call to it. And you will need to book in advance. Now, with Japan embracing 3G, calling from Japan is a breeze. If Japan adopt the standard SIM Card, I guess more people will be buying phones in Japan. I love some of their phones. It has so many functions (but of course in Japanese).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_japan-sim.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9345\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/japan-may-be-using-standard-sim-card-for-all-phones\/340x_japan-sim\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_japan-sim.jpg?fit=340%2C340&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"340,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"340x_japan-sim\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_japan-sim.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_japan-sim.jpg?fit=340%2C340&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9345 aligncenter\" title=\"340x_japan-sim\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_japan-sim.jpg?resize=340%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_japan-sim.jpg?w=340&amp;ssl=1 340w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_japan-sim.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/340x_japan-sim.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I wonder when this will happen. If the Japanese carriers can unlock their SIM card to allow it to be used on different phones, it will be a win-win situation for all.<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100329\/tc_afp\/japantelecomtechnology\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read the Report<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5504709\/japan-may-force-all-phones-to-be-able-to-accept-any-sim-card\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the first time I visited Japan, I could not use my phone. To be able to use mobile phone, we would need to borrow a Japanese phone in Singapore and redirect your phone call to it. And you will need to book in advance. Now, with Japan embracing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[158,2059,2060],"class_list":["post-9344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-techie","tag-sim","tag-sim-card","tag-sim-lock"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-2qI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9347,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}