Enabling international calls

On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:32:50 GMT, John Navas
<[email protected]> wrote:

>(a) Have AT&T/Cingular enable International Roaming on your account

According to my bill, it is already enabled.



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>(b) Ask AT&T/Cingular about GPRS/EGPRS(EDGE) data service when roaming,
>including the cost (which probably won't be cheap).

Is this a different feature than the GPRS/EDGE service that I am
already paying for (I have a separate number with unlimited data
transfer for $60 per month)? I have used it all over the USA. Does
international coverage cost extra?


Best,

Bob

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Neurological Surgery
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On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:04:06 -0700, "Robert A. Fink, M. D."
<[email protected]> wrote in
<[email protected]>:

>>(b) Ask AT&T/Cingular about GPRS/EGPRS(EDGE) data service when roaming,
>>including the cost (which probably won't be cheap).
>
>Is this a different feature than the GPRS/EDGE service that I am
>already paying for (I have a separate number with unlimited data
>transfer for $60 per month)? I have used it all over the USA. Does
>international coverage cost extra?

I'm pretty sure that it's not part of the service you're already paying
for, that it does indeed cost (a lot) extra.

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At 07 Apr 2007 18:02:47 +0000 John Navas wrote:

> Good info! However, I've heard that TelCel service is much better than
> Movistar service in Cancun (where the OP is going) -- no?

For the ability to place a 30 minute call to the States for a buck
I'd put up with lesser service. After all, I'm a T-Mo customer here!
;-)

Seriously, in my week in Cancun, my T-Mo phone had a signal everywhere I
went, roaming only on Movistar. (While T-Mo allows roaming on both, T-Mo
prepaid only roams on Movistar. As I stated earlier, I used a leftover
prepaid SIM in Cancun to burn off it's balance rather than incur new
charges on my contract account.)

However, I never left Cancun proper. According to Telcel and Movistar
coverage maps, Telcel has far better coverage outside Cancun, (like if
you intended to visit the ruins in Tulum, etc.) For use in and around
the resorts and the shopping areas downtown, Movistar was be fine.

Telcel and Movistar sort of parallel Cingular and T-Mo stateside- the
former having the more ubiquitous coverage, the latter being cheaper and
covering the metro areas adequately.

At 07 Apr 2007 13:04:06 -0700 Robert A. Fink, M. D. wrote:

> Is this a different feature than the GPRS/EDGE service that I am
> already paying for (I have a separate number with unlimited data
> transfer for $60 per month)? I have used it all over the USA. Does
> international coverage cost extra?

Yes. As I posted earlier in this thread, it's $20/MB, unless you have
the $109/month "DataConnect North America" plan, which allows unlimited
data in the US, and 100MB/month in Canada and/or Mexico (then $5/MB for
overages.)