Well, before you go over and make a fool of yourselves at Sanno Park
Tower, might I suggest at least getting NTT DoCoMo's president's name
right. It's not Tachiyama. It's Tachikawa.
While I don't necessarily believe that charging a 30,000 yen deposit is
the correct answer, I don't see too many people providing other
suggestions. Should only the US military guys be hit with the deposit,
or is this just more discrimination? BTW, my understanding is that
DoCoMo approached the US military here and requested they plop down the
deposit to their troops instead of each individual person. That way,
DoCoMo would be safe from those that skip out on paying their bills, and
the US gov't could make sure their guys are responsible members of this
society. Unfortunately, they said forget it. Just shows how much faith
they put in their own people.
-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.
net] On Behalf Of DMG
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:58 AM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) NTT DoCoMo's "Foreigner Tax" Protest 6/20 2PM
Thought this would be of interest to this group, not so much to join the
protest, but just to be aware of the issues and some of the reactions:
PRESS RELEASE JUNE 14, 2002
(freely forwardable)
=================================================
NTT DOCOMO'S "FOREIGNER TARIFF":
30,000 YEN DEPOSIT FOR NEW FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
PROTEST LETTER TO BE PRESENTED JUNE 20, 2002 2PM
TO DOCOMO PRESIDENT TACHIYAMA AT DOCOMO HQ
NAGATA-CHO, CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO
=================================================
Members of United for a Multicultural Japan (http://www.tabunka.org) and
The
Community (http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity) will be visiting the
headquarters of NTT DoCoMo next Thursday afternoon, presenting a letter
of
protest to President Tachiyama regarding the "30,000 yen deposit for
foreigners."
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.
For background information on this issue, please see:
http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity/NTTdocomotariff.html
Details on the event as follows:
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
TIME: June 20, 2002 (Thursday), from 2:00 pm
PLACE: NTT DoCoMo Headquarters
ADDRESS: Tokyo-to, Chiyoda-ku, Nagatacho 1-11-1
Sanno Park Tower Bldg. 27F
Tel: 03-5156-1111 (Contact: Mr Terayama)
Fax: 03-3506-0650
PURPOSE: To ask NTT DoCoMo to withdraw its policy.
To present letter of protest to President Tachiyama.
Contacts:
Imtiaz Chaudhry
Secretary General, United for a Multicultural Japan
(http://www.tabunka.org)
Mobile: 090-6029-6474 E-mail: chaudhry@tabunka.net
Arudou Debito
The Community (http://www.debito.org/TheCommunity)
Mobile: 090-2812-4015 E-mail: debito@debito.org
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
The public is encouraged to attend and show their support.
Thank you very much for reading.
ENDS
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Received on Mon Jun 17 15:36:24 2002