[snaimon]

The teltarif editorial today (2 April) about high European roaming and LD rates from mobile phones poo-poos calling cards as being clumsy (like entering all those #s, toll free dial in, PIN, destinaltion # and the possibility of errors).

So, do you agree?

Some US cards (MCI allow FREE PINLESS US dialing!) and some cards (Onesuite, Enjoyprepaid to name just a few) also offer pinless US dialing using the internet. CBW will recognize your # and call you back IF YOU REGISTER IT!? ATT will allow you pinless dialing FOR A FEE.

1. Why they don't allow this for your mobile? It cannot be a TECHNICAL matter, can it?

2. What MCI can do, the European calling card companies can do, too, true?

3. Seems to me people want CONVENIENCE over everything...... Like my darling wife dialing Australia DIRECTLY for $3 / minute (a one time $12 mistake) with our Verizon no-frills LD plan INSTEAD OF using one of our many dial-arounds. I even have speed dials programmed into our home phones (press memory, press 2, enter destination #) -- but NO, just dial directly! Naturally, from your mobile (thank goodness she hardly uses her mobile!), because you ALWAYS have it on and with you, even on the POT and in the shower?!

4. On my phone(s), I try to pre-program speed dial buttons to enter #s, passwords, pauses, etc. That works for DIRECT DIALS, but I am not sure how to just generate the tones say using Riiing + CBW.

End of rant.

Stan