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anakha
Sep 16, 2009


I'll be flying to Osaka with some friends for 5 nights in April.

I'm normally a somewhat heavy data user (averaging 3-4GB on my smartphone plan a month), and having Google Maps/Waze access plus translation and general browsing/lookups of places to visit will definitely be high priorities on this trip.

My usual approach when flying to another country is to bring my dual-SIM phone, with my home SIM on roaming in one SIM slot (for calls/texts to home), then get a local prepaid SIM for data so my phone bill won't poo poo itself with data roaming. After reading the OP though, I'm suddenly not so sure how feasible an option that is.

How reliable is the b-mobile service? The visitor SIM option on their website seems workable. Would just renting a mobile hotspot as mentioned in the OP be a better/cheaper option?

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