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- From: comptec91025@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Ian Hobday)
- Subject: Re: Telephones in Japan
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.091844.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
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- References: <1992Dec18.221945.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> <3498@aegis.or.jp>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 17:18:44 GMT
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- >>What does it cost to get a phone installed in Japan (Osaka area, in case it
- >>matters). How about monthly charges? Are all calls by the minute? Is
- >>there a difference between local/long distance? Do apartments ever come with
- >>phones installed (what is the norm?)?
- >
- > The last time I got a phone it cost me 72,800 yen for the line which
- > they bring to the outside of the house. To have it connected to the
- > inside runs about 10,000 yen unless you do it yourself (I do).
-
- Hmm, how did you run it in yourself? With a few tips I'm sure that I could
- too. Does it work the same with apartments? Someone else menitioned that a
- lot of this original is a deposit...Do you know how much?
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- [ Remainder of a most helpful post deleted... ]
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- Thanks Muchly...
-
- Ian.
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