When I left the US I forwarded my GSM phone to my corporate voice mail. So far so good.

Then we got new phone numbers at work.

So I turned on my US cell phone down here in Oz (9,300 miles from home) and, not surprisingly enough, nothing was working - couldn't connect to the network, etc, etc. Also not surprising, given the whole AT&T/Cingular merger thing.

So I called Cingular and they fiddled around for around 10 seconds - and then my phone connected to the network.

In Australia.

Ten seconds.

Then I changed the forwarding on my phone and the nice Cingular lady in Virginia tried the forwarding again and it worked.

Two seconds.

From Oz to the US.

That is so cool.