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Nov 10, 2006 | 5:52 pm

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mstraveler

Join Date: Apr 2003

Location: San Francisco

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Originally Posted by cpx

Good advise... . just a couple of notes from my end:

Also the international roaming charges are rather high if you use
Cingular, but if you dont expect to make many calls, this may
turn out to be cheaper.

Also SMS is an economical way to communicate when you are roaming
internationally. generally its around or less than 25c/message outgoing.

if you expect to make a lot of local call.. and receive a lot of incoming calls..
I'd recommend getting a local SIM from Paris.

To be honest, I don't know that I will need it all, but if I do it will be to call museums or restaurants there, or if my husband brings his so that we can do separate things and be able to get in touch with each other. Not sure what SMS is...?

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