Nippon Telecommunications, NTT DoCoMo's line of "SIM free version iPhone 4" and other smartphone body and SIM card set sale

Japan Communications provides a microSIM card that will allow you to use SIM Free version iPhone 4 on NTT DoCoMo networkTalking b-microSIM platinum serviceWe announced in August, but the problem was becoming procurement of the SIM free version iPhone 4 main unit.

Since it is necessary to acquire the main body separately, although there was a high impression of introduction by all means, it became clear that we will sell a set with the smartphone main body of SIM free model including iPhone 4.

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Nippon Telecommunication, Establishing Sales Network for SIM Products for SIM-Free Mobile Devices | Nippon Telecommunications Co., Ltd.

According to the press release of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, the company made a strategic decision to build an agency network that can purchase both SIM-free products including iPhone 4 and SIM service "Nippon Telecommunication" talking SIM "together. As a first issue today, , It seems that he signed an agency contract with Top Wy Japan which operates 28 mobile shops around Tokyo.

Japan Communications used NTT DoCoMo's network as MVNO (Virtual Mobile Communication Business)Flat-rate data communication SIM with voice service for smartphone "talkingSIM"AndSIM Free version Micro SIM for iPhone 4 "talking b-microSIM Platinum Service"Although it was necessary for the user to procure a smartphone separately in using the service, it is to develop a shop which can newly purchase the mobile terminal and the Japanese communication SIM card as an agency.

The agency is supposed to sell SIM free products including iPhone 4 from manufacturers or distribution companies, and purchase SIM cards from Japanese communications, and set them as a set and sell them in the same way as conventional mobile phone sales methods to general users It is.

By the way, it is a big bottleneck for general users that it is necessary to pay a settled amount at the beginning in the prepaid type sales policy adopted by Nippon Telecommunication Corporation, but as the agency development develops, new In addition to being able to take the same sales measures as other mobile operators, by allowing an agent network to sell SIM-free products along with SIM cards, overseas manufacturers etc. can easily introduce SIM-free products into the Japanese market It is said that it will be beneficial for a virtuous circle to be created.

In introducing this measure, Seiji Mita, President and Representative Director of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said,

"In anticipation of the unlocking of SIM next spring, Japanese manufacturers are worried that they will remain the same as they are in the current situation, that is, it is a mechanism that relied on selling entirely to mobile carriers.Sim Free Era We will promote the realization of SIM free society by newly opening up a way to sell our own brand products on our own sales network at the merchant shop expected to play a central role in. "