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17-12-2009, 08:41
I don't know how long you will be gone. If you plan a lot of calling and will have wifi access, you could get a T-Mobile US acct. w. unlimited calling for about $50/mo. Get one of their UMA enabled phones. Calls made over wifi from anywhere in the world - to and from U.S. numbers are included in your unlimited plan. With some UMA phones (TM Blackberrys are some) you can disable the ability to connect to a cell tower - thus avoiding accidentally connecting to an expensive roaming call.
For just incidental calling, I think until Google Voice makes their system easier to configure to use like Skype et al. - Skype is the way to go. TMobile is my everyday carrier, so we have used "free" wifi calling for a couple years from a dozen diff. countries, incl. S. Africa - JNB airport where we picked up a free wifi signal from one of the airlines.
...mike
It may be possible to use Google Voice to do what you want. I am not tech savy enough to know. GV does have apps for BB. They may have one for the Apple phone you have - but maybe not since Google and Apple are sometimes competing w. each other now. Using GV might have to be done via cell tower?
Make use of T-M's UMA/wifi free calling from any place in the world with access to wifi. I use an LG G6, wife an S7)
A/o Oct 20, 2013 no need for intl prepaid as T-Mobile U.S. includes voice roaming at 20¢/min (in and out)., unlimited text (in and out), and unlimited data in 140+ countries.
My Plan -[6 lines] U.S. T-Mobile unlimited minutes (incoming and outgoing), unlimited text, fast data on each line. that $145/mo. total! . (In U.S. no surcharge for calling a cell.) If a line exceeds 2G of data in a month, pay $10 more for that line. [That only happens a couple times/year.
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