[Idyllchat] cell phones in Europe

[Judith Sachs]

Not to make this phone thing more difficult than it already is!

But our daughter was in Paris for a semester last year and we started  
out with a Mobal phone ($29.99 at that point, unlocked) and a SIM  
card from them. We were really enthused until we got the bill at the  
end of the month - about $400 for the month of outgoing and incoming  
calls @ around $1.50 a minute. We really didn't talk that much but it  
was devastating. The problem with Mobal is that it's an English  
company so the calls outside the UK (whether to and from Europe or to  
and from the USA) are considered long distance.

So our daughter purchased a French phone with a French SIM card and  
we used a pre-purchased calling card when we wanted to call her. Much  
more economical!
 From what I've been reading, it sounds like it's best to get a GSM  
unlocked phone in the US, then buy the SIM card for the country  
you're going to.

On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:17 PM, idyllchat-request at lists.untours.com wrote:

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Judith Sachs
Health Educator, Writer, and Speaker
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