Hi, I recently got a Oppo Find N phone. It is the best phone ever, however my UQ Mobile sim doesn’t work at all in the phone. I signed up for Mobal (which uses softbank) and that didn’t work either. However, my Google FI data only sim card works fine. But then I won’t have a Japan number. I am wondering if anyone knows what MNVO providers or sim cards will work with foreign phones? It should work because it supports various Japan bands, but it doesn’t seem to.
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Also, on a side note, does anyone know of a way to get a Japan issued credit card (which Rakuten requires for phone service) without having a Japan bank account? I was thinking of a precard card, but supposedly those are not accepted for recurring monthly subscriptions such as phone. It seems that a lot of my foreign (US issued) cards often are declined, even at POS stores, kind of thought the whole point of a card was to be able to use it while traveling but I guess not in Japan?
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On your second question. Not a chance in a million years you will get a credit card in Japan without a Japanese Bank
The most common issue is a missing or incorrect APN setting. You can go to UQ’s site to see what it is and try entering it in manually.
Is there a (probably incorrect) reason why you refuse to get a bank account?
I had a one plus in the past and volte was not supported on a software level.
This resulted in the SIM not able to connect to the network.