Re No Market

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Rowland Cheshire writes:
>I will need to investigate further, but can FIC or someone on this forum 
>confirm the availability of services in Japan without the encumbrance of 
>purchasing the phone in Japan. In other words, is it possible in light of 
>FIC's market research to simply purchase a prepaid SIM card in Japan.
>I know of hundreds of expats who would be more than interested in this kind of 
>flexibility.

Has Japan adopted GSM?  My understanding (as of a few years ago) was
that they used a CDMA system, incompatible with US CDMA.