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Originally Posted by Stu
I carry a Blackberry on Cingular's global roaming plan so I don't worry about SMSs. I just send e-mails to the phones since the one thing US mobiles do right is provide you with an e-mail address.
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Do you pay for those e-mailed SMSes?
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Originally Posted by Stu
In the Middle East and AFrica, 09 is the best. It has the longest list of free incoming calls. For example, I discovered that at least official Riiing doesn't work in Lebanon.
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That's right. But 09 must be used coupled with another SIM (possibly Blackberry, as you said) for SMSing since SMSes are probably not enabled in 09 yet
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Originally Posted by Stu
Here is 09's list of free incoming calls in the Middle East and Africa.
Benin, Guinea, Madeira, Malaysia, Sudan, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo, El Salvador, Faeroes, Gabon, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritius, Mozambique, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Bahrain, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Madagascar, Moldova, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Senegal, Seychelles, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Yemen
This is a quick and very dirty edit of the list. You will find some stuff in their that is wrong.
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Really dirty, I agree
(couldn't you look at the map first???).
Madeira - close to Africa but this island is a part of Portugal
Malaysia - rather Far East
Sweden - Europe!!!
El Salvador - Central America
Faeroes - Europe (islands on Atlantic, Danish autonomic non-EU territory)
Kyrgyzstan - Central Asian former Soviet republic; might be OK but not sure if "Middle East" refers to the post-Soviet area.
Moldova - eastern Europe, between Romania and Ukraine
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Originally Posted by Stu
For example, I don't have a clue where the Seychelles Islands are -- I've heard great things about them, but they may be South Pacific.
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Indian Ocean, I think it might be considered as a African country.
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Originally Posted by Stu
I deleted the obvious countries, but I cannot keep track of all the Africa nations any more. With respect to the Middle East, it also becomes difficult. Is Pakistan part of the Middle East? I think it is probably part of Asia, but it is a Muslim nation with borders on Middle Eastern nations.
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Stu, please... Pakistan IS a part of Asia. Middle East, Far East (and Near East, the term still alive in e.g. Poland) are rather political, not geographical names.
Russia and Turkey spread over Asia and Europe. The same "feature" is sometimes attributed to to Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Egipt is both in Africa and Asia.
Indonesia and East Timor are sometimes considered to be both in Asia and Oceania. Cyprus is traditionally a part of Europe but in fact it might be considered as an Asian island.
OT, my general conclusion is that, in order to be specific, we shouldn't use region names but country names.