Hi Eric, A quick update to the international use of your and )Hopefully) my Treo. I am thinking of planning a trip to Italy and wanted to stay connected.
Considering all the roaming fees and such, I found by chance a website from which you can purchase internation SIM cards. They can be had for each specific country, for example a TIM card for Italy. The rates are by far cheaper! It is like only 12-15 cents a minute to make calls in Italy, and if you have to call home to USA/Canada you pay only about 60 cents a minute for the call. That is alot cheaper than having to pay usual fee plus a roaming charg, which probably works on 1 minute inervals. It is a Prepaid service, so no contract, no monthly bill AND the number is good for a year. By the way, ALL incoming calls are free. Yes even if they originate from accross the pond! On top of that, say you are in Italy and want to see a bit of the Alps and by accident cross the boarder in to Switzerland....the card roams. A prepaid service, that has good rates, where the number lasts a year, all incoming calls are free, and it roams. I think the Europeans have something on us. Fair cell prices!
Also, there is a Global SIM card. The rates are higher, and the number is only good for 9 months, but it works in 100 different countries.
Gotta look into this more.
Geo |