Pay As You Go

Pre paid cell phones are called “Pay as you go” in England. It’s not popular in Japan anymore, but it’s quite convenient here. I don’t need any ID for getting a cell phone. By just telling my name and birthday, I can buy and use it immediately.

I said it’s not popular in Japan, but I used a pre-paid cell phone before I came here. I brought it with me, but I can’t use it here. I can use it when I go back to Japan, however, my cell phone company is TU-KA. They will stop all cell phone services after the end of March 2008. Because TU-KA was merged into au. I have to change my TU-KA contract into an au one. They sent me the procedures. They have to confirm my identification through my current TU-KA’s cell phone. They’ll call it and I have to pick the phone up. If I were in Japan, it would be easy, but now I’m in England. How can I do it? All procedures are free and if I could finish the procedures, I could get a new au cell phone. In any case, I have to cancel the current contract with TU-KA, otherwise they’ll keep sending the cancelation procedures. So, I filled out the cancellation form for TU-KA and the new contract form for au and sent them to Japan. After a week, I got an international call from au. He asked me “Do you want to change your TU-KA contract to au?” I couldn’t imagine I could change my contract in Japan from England. So, I said, “If I could, I’d love to do it.” All procedures were finished by phone and they are kindly sending a new one to my parent’s house. Wow, again Japanese company is awesome!