{"id":625,"date":"2009-07-19T06:39:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/?p=625"},"modified":"2009-07-19T06:39:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:39:59","slug":"uq-wimax-mvno-bic-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/19\/uq-wimax-mvno-bic-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"UQ WiMax MVNO &#8211; Bic Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bic Camera has recently announced participation in UQ WiMAX MVNO program. However, in a recent visit to Bic Camaera in Shin-Yokohama, I couldn&#8217;t find any reference to WiMAX, which made me investigate more into Bic Camer&#8217;a WiMAX offering on their website:<\/p>\n<p>Bic Camera WiMAX Banner is at the bottom of the page, under Emobile, OCN and other promotions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bic-camera-wimax.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-626\" title=\"bic-camera-wimax\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bic-camera-wimax.jpg\" alt=\"bic-camera-wimax\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plan details are fairly simple as they follow UQ WiMAX price plan, the UQ Flat at 4480 Yen per month. Additional 2835 Yen are required for registration (it still kills me to pay registration fees everywhere I go in Japan):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wimax-plan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-627\" title=\"wimax-plan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wimax-plan.jpg\" alt=\"wimax-plan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, this part is getting annoying. Bic Camera offer only one device (?!), the BDSS01, by Shinsei Corp, which I can just guess it is the same device used by UQ (UD01SS) with a different name and package. Device price is 12,800 Yen (!!!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wimax-device.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"wimax-device\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/wimax-device.jpg\" alt=\"wimax-device\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t really feel like Bic Camera are pushing this device, no promotion, no benefits. I don&#8217;t see anyone interested in WiMAX getting it from Bic Camera, so why bother with the MVNO program?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bic Camera has recently announced participation in UQ WiMAX MVNO program. However, in a recent visit to Bic Camaera in Shin-Yokohama, I couldn&#8217;t find any reference to WiMAX, which made me investigate more into Bic Camer&#8217;a WiMAX offering on their website: Bic Camera WiMAX Banner is at the bottom of the page, under Emobile, OCN &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/19\/uq-wimax-mvno-bic-camera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UQ WiMax MVNO &#8211; Bic Camera&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[56,111,133,155],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wimax","tag-bic-camera","tag-mvno","tag-shinsei-corp","tag-uq-wimax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}