
TOKYO -- Japan's Plus One Marketing soon will bring Freetel entry-level smartphones to their eighth and ninth foreign markets, targeting emerging nations to try to sell 10 million handsets overall in fiscal 2018.
The low-cost, SIM-free smartphones -- which can be used with a variety of carriers -- were recently introduced in the U.S., Canada, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Mexico, Chile and Peru. Vietnam and Ecuador will join that list shortly, with others likely to follow.