Re: Use of Cingular phone overseas
- From: Dennis Ferguson <dcferguson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:33:32 GMT
On 2008-03-30, Rick <Rick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have the Cingular national family plan, with four phones and a common
pool of 1000 minutes per month. Within the US, we have no long distance or
roaming charges, and we have the normal Cingular features like free mobile
to mobile, unlimited night and weekend and the carryover of unused minutes.
One of us will be traveling to Spain (Barcelona) for three weeks, and we
would like to know if Cingular has any special "deals" or programs to help
us minimize charges from that phone while in Spain. Would I be correct in
assuming that the normal free mobile-to-mobile and free night and weekend
would not apply? What would typical charges be for calls made to or from
that phone while it is in Spain?
It will cost $1.29 per minute with your current plan, or $0.99
per minute if you add AT&T World Traveller to the account (about
$4/month extra, I think), for both incoming and outgoing calls.
The roaming phone will be charged this no matter who calls and when
they call.
For three weeks this isn't a good deal. The person travelling
could talk a whole lot longer for the same amount of money by
getting their phone unlocked (AT&T will provide the code for
this if you call) and buying a prepaid Spanish SIM either when
they get there or before they leave from (say) here (for a
bit of an upcharge):
http://www.telestial.com/view_product.php?PRODUCT_ID=LSIM-ES03
If you want a fairly reasonably priced way to call the Spanish number
from the US, as well as maybe making overseas calls from Spain, you might
look at Rebtel at
http://www.rebtel.com
though there are lots of other was to do this.
Dennis Ferguson
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