communicating with the USA from Europe
Apr 26th, 2012, 09:40 PM
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In this day and age when every 10 year old kid walks around with a mobile phone (probably a smartphone to boot), public pay phones are indeed becoming scarcer and scarcer all over the world and of course you need a phone to trigger a call even with a phone card.
So...probably a mobile phone but it depends a lot on where you wish to call. Calls withi the eu on cell phones have become much much more reasonable but calls from within the eu to outside the eu have been jacked up to make up the revenue although there are some good bargain to be had in some countries such as Great eirIN.
So...probably a mobile phone but it depends a lot on where you wish to call. Calls withi the eu on cell phones have become much much more reasonable but calls from within the eu to outside the eu have been jacked up to make up the revenue although there are some good bargain to be had in some countries such as Great eirIN.
Apr 27th, 2012, 01:36 AM
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xyz123. So glad to see you post an answer. I think SIM possibilites change so fast.
I am going to Portugal. I use Skype mostly for calls to the US now but still take my quad band phones.
I have been using them locally in Europe mostly to text friends and family when we need to meet at restaurants, etc.
I tend to buy local SIM cards for those calls rather than global ones but they seem to be getting more expensive to use because the rest of my family are not as frugal as I and keep their US numbers and don't think anything of calling on them.
Do you have any new SIM cards up your hat to suggest?
I am going to Portugal. I use Skype mostly for calls to the US now but still take my quad band phones.
I have been using them locally in Europe mostly to text friends and family when we need to meet at restaurants, etc.
I tend to buy local SIM cards for those calls rather than global ones but they seem to be getting more expensive to use because the rest of my family are not as frugal as I and keep their US numbers and don't think anything of calling on them.
Do you have any new SIM cards up your hat to suggest?
Apr 27th, 2012, 04:09 AM
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I'm most familiar, of course, with British sim cards which have some real bargains, especially on calling internationally within the UK..logos who seems to hav disappeared every since her prediction that the USD was about to collapse was proven to be nonsensical, had some good ideas for German sim cards but frankly, I have never been to Portugal, hated every minute I spent in Spain (for personal reasons not to demean Spanish peopoe, they're wonderful for the most part) so I can't really help you there.
However, e-kit has some good cards, available on ebay (or at least in the past) which have some good features as far as receiving calls is concerned, not quite as good but better than using a sim card from outside a particular country in another country, for calls to North America.
Understanding, of course, that what we're talking about here is relly outdated wnd generation technology when in many cases we're up to 4th genenration especially for data.
However, e-kit has some good cards, available on ebay (or at least in the past) which have some good features as far as receiving calls is concerned, not quite as good but better than using a sim card from outside a particular country in another country, for calls to North America.
Understanding, of course, that what we're talking about here is relly outdated wnd generation technology when in many cases we're up to 4th genenration especially for data.
Apr 27th, 2012, 10:57 AM
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Talking about outdated. I have a couple of phones that I bought on Ebay for use in Europe. But the last one, from last year, was really hard to find.
It seems that just plain old quad band phones, which is what I wanted, aren't around much anymore. And that is just what I wanted. I did find one dirt cheap there...less than $20 with shipping.
So maybe SIM cards are going the way of those phones what with data plans, etc that everyone seems to be addicted to.
But I will surely check out the UK SIM cards as the country only one in Portugal the last time seemed expensive.
Thanks
It seems that just plain old quad band phones, which is what I wanted, aren't around much anymore. And that is just what I wanted. I did find one dirt cheap there...less than $20 with shipping.
So maybe SIM cards are going the way of those phones what with data plans, etc that everyone seems to be addicted to.
But I will surely check out the UK SIM cards as the country only one in Portugal the last time seemed expensive.
Thanks
