Is It Possible To Buy A Japanese Cell Phone In America And Have It Work With Verizon?
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at
4:31 am
I'm looking to buy a Japanese cell phone because I like the designs, I'm wondering if it's possible to buy one from the United States and if it will work with Verizon. Money is not an issue.
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If money is not an issue then I would suggest you switch to a provider that uses SIM cards. All use able Japanese cellphones require a SIM card.
To my knowledge, DoCoMo and most of Softbank’s cellphones work with a hypersim. I currently own a SH906i and a SH-01A.
I live in Canada and my current provider is Rogers. However, there are many providers in the states that work with the Japanese cellphones.
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There is a great online community there and a Japanese cellphone section in the forum.
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Japanese phones use SIM cards. Verizon does not use SIM cards so you can’t use a Japanese phone on Verizon.
If you have an ** UNLOCKED ** Japanese phone that can use the GSM band, you can use it on American carriers such as T-Mobile and AT&T, both of which use SIM cards. Many Japanese phones nowadays have global roaming so you shouldn’t have trouble finding a model. You just have to make sure it’s unlocked so you can use it outside of the Japanese phone network it was designed for (eg. Softbank, Docomo, au, etc.)
FYI, I have an unlocked Vodafone 803T and I use T-Mobile. It’s an older model phone though so you won’t get all the cool features newer phones have to offer.
No. CDMA is not common in Japan, and thats what Verizon uses. Different frequencies too.
No. Sorry but t mobile and at&t can hav japanese phones on them.
@Great Scott
I don’t know where you’re getting your information about Japan not using CDMA phones, but it’s either outdated or misinformed. I live in Tokyo and most of my friends have CDMA phones, because we can take them back to the United States and use them (with roaming of course) when we stop there for a week or so. In fact, most Japanese phones don’t use SIM cards — they use IC cards instead.
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So true ..
Just call Verizon and they will activate ANY Verizon phone as a Prepaid phone. The only exception is if the phone has been on an account that owes money or was called in as stolen. This is concidered a "bad esn" and Verizon will not active that phone on any account. Now, once you activate a Verizon phone on a Prepaid account, it cannot be used on a post paid (contract) account. They have no issue with a phone going from Post/Contract phone to Prepaid plan phone. So as long as the esn is good, which you will find out when you call, then you are set!
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