The kind of competition that the Japanese are now facing from other smaller and less advanced Asian countries like Korea and Taiwan with the Cheap Cell Phone is like the competition that US companies faced from the Japanese in the latter part of the 20th century with cheap electronics equipment. It use to say made in Japan. Now is says made in China or Taiwan or made in Korea.

A large variety of Cheap Cell Phones are being churned out in high volume at extremely competitive prices by these Cheap Cell Phones companies.
Even though the quality may not be on par with the kind of Wireless Cell Phones that they are competing with, for all practical purposes the common man might find not much of a difference between these Cheap Cell Phones
and the high-priced variety.

Another totally different scenario also exists where the same high-priced, high quality Wireless Cell Phones themselves are sold for incredibly low prices.
Sometimes they are even given away for free! But as one might guess, there is always a catch in buying these Cheap Cell Phones. These Cheap Cell Phones are offered either at a low price or for free because
they come bundled in a 'combo' offer.

All the Cheap Cell Phones, be it fixed-line or a Wireless Cellular Phone, needs a Wireless Plan provider through which the calls are routed. The services offered by these Wireless Plan providers are normally charged whereas the Cheap Cell Phones are offered free or at a discounted price when both are bundled
together for a special Wireless Plan offer.
Wireless Plan Offers of this kind are area-specific since Wireless Plan providers differ from place to place and from country to country. The kinds of Cheap Cell Phones that are popularly used also differ region-wise and country-wise. As a result, these kinds of bundled offers are more or less localized in nature. The offers are also valid only for a short period of time before the next series of
Cheap Cell Phones takes its place.