NTT DoCoMo recalls 240,000 SIM cards on roaming issues
by Brian White 
posted Mar 15th 2007 at 5:11PM
NTT DoCoMo joined the million-plus battery recall party late last year, and now it has started a new party all its own -- recalling SIM cards en masse. The Japanese carrier said that it would be recalling 240,000 SIM cards for existing subscribers due to roaming problems with the cards. The carrier said that the recalled SIMs could malfunction when trying to be used outside of Japan (read: abroad), making the accompanying handsets useless for talk or data. New SIM cards are coming to the affected handsets for free, so the next time you take that i-mode handset somewhere outside NTT DoCoMo's area to not work, make sure you've swapped that SIM first, okay? Otherwise, you may get mad while roaming and take lighter to card.
Filed under: NTT DoCoMo, Misc
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Robert @ Mar 15th 2007 5:52PM
where else would a docomo phone work anyway? lol. im definately missing something here.
vjh @ Mar 15th 2007 8:50PM
Docomo has several handsets in their lineup that have internationally compatible UMTS and GSM radios. For those people that do not have an internationally capable handset, docomo also has a rental service that provides a UMTS/GSM phone but no SIM card.