Messaging Giant Line Becomes a Phone Carrier in Japan

Posted by msmash on Sunday March 27, 2016 @01:24AM from the rising-sun dept.

Popular instant messaging service, Line, is entering the mobile carrier business in Japan. The company says that its carrier will utilise telecommunications infrastructure of major Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo and start at an affordable price of 500 yen (roughly $4.40) a month. Jon Fingas reports for Engadget: As of this summer, Japanese residents can subscribe to Line Mobile and get unlimited use of not only Line's chat and call services, but the "main features" (browsing and posts) of Facebook and Twitter.

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meanwhile in Canada... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-27 01:33 · Score: 2, Insightful

Rogers still sells data starting at 10mb, yes ten.
Re:Does it include the main features of Slashdot? by PopeRatzo · 2016-03-27 02:40 · Score: 4, Insightful

No, Line won't support Slashdot, since being a Japanese service, it requires Unicode support.

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