Cingular; are you on drugs... I dropped them fast after ATTWS and T-Mobile offered better rates:
Cingular (From their website)
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Rates For Calls Made While Roaming Overseas:
Local calls are $2.49 per minute.
Long distance is included with all outbound calls while roaming internationally.
Rates are generally applicable to mobile-originated voice, data, fax, and/or Interactive Messaging.
Rates For Calls Received While Roaming Overseas: All incoming calls received while roaming overseas are $3.99 per minute. This includes the $2.49 per minute for air time plus the Cingular long distance rate. This represents the charge for delivering a call from your Cingular home area in the U.S. to your location overseas.
YES A RIPOFF
T-Mobile
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Worldclass Rates: $0.99 a Minute Incoming/Outgoing, etc in most Europe Countries.
ATTWS (GSM)
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$1.29 a minute to recieve calls or make calls within the country or to the US. $2.29 a min calls to other countries. Data for Europe
Pre-paid SIM's are better.
I do one even better. Since we have offices in Europe I got our team to setup a standard account for me (contract). My cell phone bill went from $900 or so in the US to $100 in the US plus a seperate account in Europe for about $150 a month. MUCH better than forking over another 600-700 bucks to the US carrier. I change the voice mail message on the phone I don't use as I switch countries to advise callers to try me on the other number. Does a great job of discouraging idiot calls as well while out of the US.
Also if you have a Motorola phone or older Sony Ericsson's, you must switch the phones band from 1900 to 900/1800. Tri-Band Nokia's, newer Sony Ericsson phones can browse networks without such a setting. If you recieve an "SOS calls only" or "emergency calls only" after choosing a networking and waiting a few mins you DON'T have international roaming turned on. The network you are trying to roaming on can't help you must call your US network (so, I always advise to find out the NON-Toll free number for your network operator just in case the number is regional... regional toll free numbers can't be dialed from Euope)
[This message has been edited by NickP 1K (edited 04-07-2003).]