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Oct 16, 2006 | 4:58 pm

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Originally Posted by stimpy

I do sort of the same thing with Skype-In. I have a French SIM for France, Spanish SIM for Spain, etc. In Europe, all incoming calls are free, but you pay a bundle for roaming. So yes you could roam to Spain with your French SIM, but you then lose free incoming calls and all airtime is quite expensive. You might as well use your US SIM instead. In fact, using your US SIM means that you don't need any VoIP trickery.

It really depends on how many calls you make and how much you want to spend.

Thanks for the info!

I dont actually have a US SIM, I only have these GSM phones for Europe (use CMDA here). I was trying to avoid shelling out $30 / phone / country....
I might just get one French and one Spanish SIM and tell my folks to buy their own if they need to be in touch or they can have people call me.

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