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

DRNewcomb · 04-09-2007, 06:34

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.

snidely · 05-09-2007, 05:47

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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

DRNewcomb · 05-09-2007, 23:41

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Originally Posted by snidely

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.

My understanding is that you really don't get a fixed temporary number, rather it is assigned from a pool of such numbers only when a call is in progress. When your home carrier tells the roamed carrier it has an incoming call the roamed carrier then tells the home carrier what number to send it to. It all happens in a couple of seconds.

Having a known, fixed number that is good for an extended period of time is fairly unusual.

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DRNewcomb (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,465 Join Date: 27 Feb 2004 Location: Mississippi, USA Country:	04-09-2007, 06:34 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.