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

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Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

Another suggestion is to be aware of and use carriers who assign you a local number while roaming. I ran into this in Indonesia when a carrier (ProXL I think) sent me a SMS telling me I they had assigned me a local number for receiving calls. I programmed that number into Voicestick's forwarding and stuck them into my PRL for the rest of the time I was in Indonesia.

DRN - That is great to know. How many carriers in the world do this? As i recall, technically when you are roaming, the system does assign you a temporary number. Problem is, you never (usually) know what it is.

...mike