how do I check my voicemail when roaming internationally?

I'm going to latin america with my cingular blackberry in a few days.
How do I go about checking my voicemail while roaming in another
country? Thanks!

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On 24 Aug 2006 06:13:19 -0700, [email protected] wrote in
<[email protected]>:

>I'm going to latin america with my cingular blackberry in a few days.
>How do I go about checking my voicemail while roaming in another
>country? Thanks!

By calling in, which is expen$ive. You'll also get nicked for roaming
on any calls that ring in even if you don't answer. Better to get a
local prepaid SIM so you're not roaming, and use an international
callback service. See FAQ below.

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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

On 2006-08-24, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm going to latin america with my cingular blackberry in a few days.
> How do I go about checking my voicemail while roaming in another
> country? Thanks!

Phone yourself. If it asks you to leave a message instead of
giving you the voicemail menu directly (this seems to depend on
how well the local carrier forwards your caller ID), immediately
press "*", then enter your password/PIN when prompted. You'll
want to make sure you have a password set before you leave the
US for the latter case.

Dennis Ferguson

On 2006-08-24, John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2006 06:13:19 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>I'm going to latin america with my cingular blackberry in a few days.
>>How do I go about checking my voicemail while roaming in another
>>country? Thanks!
>
> By calling in, which is expen$ive. You'll also get nicked for roaming
> on any calls that ring in even if you don't answer. Better to get a
> local prepaid SIM so you're not roaming, and use an international
> callback service. See FAQ below.

That advice is not universally true, particularly in latin America.
In Costa Rica I couldn't find anyone who had ever heard of prepaid
service, so this wasn't an option. In Mexico the two choices where
I usually visit, Telcel and MX Movistar, both charge prepaid accounts
3 pesos/minute ($0.27) for incoming and in-Mexico calls and 10 pesos/minute
($0.91) for calls to the US. With the Cingular roaming rate being
$0.59/minute for all calls, whether you are better off with the
prepaid card service or not depends on your calling pattern (for
frequent travellers to Mexico who make heavy use of their phones,
nothing beats Verizon's North America's Choice plan if where you
visit has coverage).

Dennis Ferguson

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:18:07 GMT, Dennis Ferguson
<[email protected]> wrote in
<[email protected]>:

>On 2006-08-24, John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 24 Aug 2006 06:13:19 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>>I'm going to latin america with my cingular blackberry in a few days.
>>>How do I go about checking my voicemail while roaming in another
>>>country? Thanks!
>>
>> By calling in, which is expen$ive. You'll also get nicked for roaming
>> on any calls that ring in even if you don't answer. Better to get a
>> local prepaid SIM so you're not roaming, and use an international
>> callback service. See FAQ below.
>
>That advice is not universally true, particularly in latin America.
>[SNIP]

Oops. I was thinking of areas like Western Europe. Thanks for the
correction.

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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>