keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>As of April 1, 2002, NTT DoCoMo charges all non-permanent-resident
>foreigners a 30,000 yen deposit when signing a contract for a new phone.
>J-Phone and AU do not have similar policies, and we consider this an
>unfair
>singling out of people as untrustworthy simply by dint of nationality or
>visa status.
While on the one hand I think this stinks, I would also be very surprised
if a sound business case could not be made for it.
Of course, a similar such case could be made for charging other "prior
probability high risk crudely-defined-groups" a premium and does nothing
to justify it.
Nick
Received on Mon Jun 17 03:57:50 2002