Alternate ways for U.S. users to travel cheaply, phonewise

snidely

Wasn't sure where to post these ideas:

1. Think I mentioned previously that U.S. T-Mobile subscribers who get one of there UMA/wifi phones can make calls from anywhere in the world and charged as tho you were at home. That means you can make and receive calls and have them simply come out of your minute bucket. For $10/mo. extra, you get unlimited minutes. Downside - you have to have access to a wifi signal.

2. For those few who are grandfathered in on T-Mobile's old intl. roaming plan, you can still get incoming calls in most of Europe for 29 to 32 cents/min. Since that plan usually entails expensive rates for calling back to U.S., or, many times expensive calls simply calling numbers locally - you can, by signing up w. Enlinea's callback service, call back to U.S. for 34 to 37 cents/min. Calls to numbers in other first world countries (landlines) would be 1 to 4 cents more. Downside - This only really pays in first world countries (Europe, Israel, and a few others where T-M's incoming rates on this plan are cheap.
New T-M users (since about 2004) pay 99 cents/min. for both incoming and outgoing in these same countries.

I plan on making heavy use of both these options this coming week in Ireland.
...mike

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snidely (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 451 Join Date: 09 May 2005 Location: Berkeley, California and Miami Country:	Alternate ways for U.S. users to travel cheaply, phonewise - 04-09-2007, 00:52 Wasn't sure where to post these ideas: 1. Think I mentioned previously that U.S. T-Mobile subscribers who get one of there UMA/wifi phones can make calls from anywhere in the world and charged as tho you were at home. That means you can make and receive calls and have them simply come out of your minute bucket. For $10/mo. extra, you get unlimited minutes. Downside - you have to have access to a wifi signal. 2. For those few who are grandfathered in on T-Mobile's old intl. roaming plan, you can still get incoming calls in most of Europe for 29 to 32 cents/min. Since that plan usually entails expensive rates for calling back to U.S., or, many times expensive calls simply calling numbers locally - you can, by signing up w. Enlinea's callback service, call back to U.S. for 34 to 37 cents/min. Calls to numbers in other first world countries (landlines) would be 1 to 4 cents more. Downside - This only really pays in first world countries (Europe, Israel, and a few others where T-M's incoming rates on this plan are cheap. New T-M users (since about 2004) pay 99 cents/min. for both incoming and outgoing in these same countries. I plan on making heavy use of both these options this coming week in Ireland. ...mike 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.