Is there anyone in Kobe/Osaka/Tokyo who can hook me up with a Rakuten Mobile physical or eSIM? Probably impossible since I don't have a Japanese ID card, but would be cool to test all four mobile networks here.
@chaos0815@nauleyco Yeah. I already have Airalo, Ubigi, Saily, and (via US Mobile) eSIM Club. Between those I can access SoftBank, KDDI/au, and NTT, with 5G on SoftBank and NTT. Technically I'm missing 5G on au as well but I'm not sure I can get that as a foreigner.
In which case, curious how much of your time you spend on their network, and how performance is on 4G and 5G, and how much time you have to fall back to roaming on...KDDI, right?
@ian@nauleyco@chatii@Girgias@tekimen@KentarouTakeda
Docomo and KDDI do not offer services for travelers, but several MVNO companies seem to sell prepaid SIM cards. These tend to be slower than the official services, but the network backend is the same.
@zonuexe@nauleyco@chatii@Girgias@tekimen@KentarouTakeda Yeah, I have a couple of physical SIMs that run on docomo LTE and don't bounce out of the country for routing. I also have a bunch of eSIMs. One has docomo 5G, one has SoftBank 5G, one has SoftBank and KDDI LTE, and one has...docomo LTE I think? Most route through Singapore but one routes through Hong Kong.
The SoftBank 5G eSIM actually not 700 Mbps down, 80 Mbps up earlier today near Shin-Kobr, which was impressive.
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