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New service in Japan to allow mobile users to use other carriers’ networks during outages
(www.straitstimes.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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No one in rural Japan (or at least my corner of it) is doing meshtastic. Japan is more strict on power as well. I am a licensed HAM and even that is pretty thin on the ground up here these days. I had family visit and one brought a node. Nothing at all anywhere we travelled even in one of northern Japan's biggest cities