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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Sometimes the rates to make calls using your phone in a different country can be as high as $13/minute or more. Have a 30 minute business call you have to take? Later you have another call that can't be missed? I have had a $2000+ phone bill from a 10 day business trip in India. Since then I have get local prepaid SIMs for every country I visit.