For customers who purchased a device without a contract and customers who terminated a contract with softbank. When address book data recorded on a usim card is edited using a global roaming compatible handset, attempting to use the same card afterwards with a softbank 3g handset may result in unreadable data. Rakuten mobile prepaid sim and recharge sales ended on april 7, 2020. I just got a new sim using an old school official vodafone japan phone and had no issue getting service with the same sim in a different phone that has an imei not registered with softbank. Softbank is not responsible for incompatibility of usim cards with handsets other than these models. Generally softbank doesnt care so long as you have the right apn settings. Try as you might, with jailbreaking or other softwarebased unlocking techniques, it was impossible to use a sim from another provider in your iphone. Precautions for use 5 to use the softbank network in the target model, this application is required. Use iphone 11 pro, iphone 11, iphone xs, iphone xr, iphone x, iphone 8, iphone 8 plus, iphone 7 on a highspeed network at an affordable price. Payloadcontent payloadcontent defaultsdata apns apn bmobile.
Unlocking a japanese iphone to use with cheap sim tokyo cheapo. Sbm indicates that this may not be a permanent situation, so service for iphones could be announced at a later date. In your apple iphone go to settings cellular cellular data network apn. Until may 2015, if you got an iphone from au, docomo or softbank in japan, the phone was locked to the carrier. Download newsky softbank apn 100gb unlimited for iphone premium sim card softbank network. These are the apn settings to enable to use data, mms and wap services on a mobile phone on the softbank mobile network in japan data settings value mms settings value. Softbank mobile 4g japan apn settings apn settings. Jun 21, 2011 softbank is checking for the t mark and writing down the imei somewhere, but unlike docomo, softbank doesnt appear to be enforcing the imei at all. Softbank mobile ymobile japan 4g lte 3g internet plus settings for iphone 5 6 6s 7 ipad android htc galaxy windows phone usim prepaid and postpaid. They dont do imei filtering like docomo and the spmail apn although docomo has mopera, you have to start with an android phone to switch to mopera, they wont let iphone users switch to mopera. Softbank apn settings can be manually configured in your device to access internet with softbank in japan.
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