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Selling Your NTT Phone Line

If you own your phone line and plan to sell it to your successor or another ALT, please be fair when determining a selling price. Remember, you’ve already used the line for 1 or more years, so adjust the price accordingly. Customers can now rent a line from NTT for only a couple of hundred extra yen per month, so there is no incentive for your successor to buy your phone line.

Alternatively, there are several companies in Sendai which purchase used phone lines. In Japanese, these companies are called denwa torihikigyou (電話取引業). For further information regarding prices, contact them directly.

Transferring Your Telephone Line

Once you have a buyer and have settled on a price, you will need to transfer the subscription rights. This involves the actual transfer of property from you to the buyer. You will need complete some paperwork. Then you can give it straight to your buyer or leave it for your successor. If you are selling your phone line to a current Sendai ALT, it may be best for you to go to NTT together and complete all the paperwork in one go.

The process is pretty simple, just follow these steps:
-Go to the Aoba-dori NTT office (see map) with your gaijin card, passport, and hanko.
-Ask for a 'Request for Approval for Transfer of Telephone Subscription Rights' (電話加入権等譲渡承認請求書denwa kanyukentou joto shonin seikyusho) Also available online at http://web116.jp/shop/meigi1/images/jouto.pdf
-Fill out the form in front of the clerk, and sign it. Make sure they understand that you are LEAVING the country and will not be back with the new owner! (If you can’t visit the NTT office in person, you’ll also need to submit a Certificate of Signature inkan shoumeisho 印鑑証明書).
-Take the form home.
-Make a copy of your gaijin card.
-Give the new owner the original form, and the copy of your gaijin card (and money for the phone bill if you are not disconnecting the line).
-The new owner must go into NTT with the form, their Alien Registration card and the copy of your card and finish the paper work, then pay 840 yen to receive the line.

Note: If the phone is changing addresses it will cost you 2,000 yen to disconnect and then the new owner will also pay anywhere from 2,000 yen to 10,000 yen to have the phone reconnected, depending on the services they want. This fee can be added to your last bill and the new owner will pay when they arrive.