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Old Aug 13, 2011 | 9:04 pm
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Originally Posted by willzzz88
if you can buy a SK Telecom or the other telecom carrier's GSM 3G SIM card.
As already noted, there is no direct way to do this, unfortunately!

Originally Posted by willzzz88
Japan/South Korea are 1st world Asian countries, they were actually smart in getting rid of GSM 2G/EDGE very crappy spectral efficient technology.
They didn't "get rid" of them - they never had them. Korea was an IS-95 country while Japan used its own technology, PDC (which was also TDMA, like GSM...)
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