Japanese phones are so kick ass they get signal from South Korea

Posted by Stefan on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 8:27 am under International Roaming

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People living at the most southern point in Japan are being charged for international roaming because their mobile phones are getting signal from the cell phone towers in South Korea, 53 km (33 miles) away. If that isn’t amazing, I don’t know what is. NTT DoCoMo says 38 models exhibit this problems and the only solution is to deactivate international roaming in their device.

[Via: Cellular News]


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    • One Response to “Japanese phones are so kick ass they get signal from South Korea”

    • Jamar says:
      April 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

      This could be a selling point for the Korean side, though- No roaming charges when you visit Japan!

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