Forbes: T-Mobile Is Best Bet, Home & Abroad (Including Japan)

Above, the T-Mobile girl.

In the past, cell phone users from the U.S. were unable to use their phones in Japan (with rare exceptions) due to system differences. All that has changed, according to an article in Forbes.com.

According to the article, credit for all this has to be given to T-Mobile:

The sea change occurred when they introduced truly unlimited texting and data worldwide as part of their very reasonably priced Simple Choice plan, plus much lower voice rates. That’s it: no changing SIM cards, no having a different number abroad, same phone, same number, same plan, same service, at no extra cost. It sounded too good to be true but now that I’ve used it several times in different countries, it is the real deal, smooth as silk, really no different from being in the US (except there is often even better coverage). The plan works in over 120 countries, and from all of them, if you do make voice calls, they cost a flat rate of 20 cents a minute.

T-Mobile didn't stop there, they have now introduced a new service, "Wi-Fi Unleashed" that will further revolutionize international phone service:

Just last week [Note: the article was posted September 18], the company announced its new “Wi-Fi Unleashed” program, under which every single smartphone it sells, regardless of brand, will offer free Wi-Fi calling and texting capability.

To verify that Japan was one of the countries that T-Mobile's services will cover, I checked here and this it what T-Mobile came up with:

To read the full Forbes article, go here.