"The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan is seeking to ban the use of prepaid wireless phones, according to an Associated Press report. Culprits make calls from prepaid wireless phones, which are difficult to track, falsely claming to be a police officer or lawyer dealing with a son or daughter in trouble. The culprits demand cash be transferred quickly into a bank account to save the child. The Liberal Democratic Party's suggested ban still requires further discussion among lawmakers, making its passage unlikely in the current session of Parliament ending on December 3, 2004. (Source: Dow Jones Newswire) "
I seriously wonder whether this is a purely cultural outcome or if this will follow in other countries. In the latter case, this will severely affect the pricing structure and the economy of the wireless world. Considering that it's the teenagers that are some of the biggest users of pre-paid phones in Europe, for example, this kind of ban may bring some control back to the parents for the kinds of communication their kids engage in (it's easy to demand the logs of the phone calls at the end of every month and check who they speak to and how much).
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