Roaming from Thailand - Problems with Optus or something

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:44:34 GMT, "Michael J" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> That's all you should need in any country, the + tells the local network
>> that you wish to place an international call, then provided you have the
>> country code and the rest of the number it should dial from anywhere in
>> the world provided you have international roaming active and there is an
>> agreement with the appropriate carriers.
>
>Except it didnt work in Hawaii.

Works in mainland USA, so no real reason it would not work in Hawaii?

Or is the recognition of the "+" set by the network?

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Can they call within the country, if so then the service has international
call barring preventing calls outside the country they are in. They need to
call their service provider and check the call barring settings.



"Peelah Ben Arhna" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Michael J said....
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>> How is she trying to dial out?
>>
>> Is she using +61xxxxxxxx?
>
> Apparently she's tried all possible combos that are available to her.
> But what has us tossed is that she can send and receieve SMSes, but not
> make voice calls.
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"Simon Templar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Michael J wrote:
>> Except it didnt work in Hawaii.
>
> Hawaii = US. Maybe your GSM900 handset couldn't lock onto a GSM850
> network.

You arent very attentive, are you Simon?

They use GSM 1900 in Hawaii.

And if you read the thread, you would see that he could, receive calls,
receive SMS, and send SMS.

Bit hard to do that with a GSM 1900 phone if all there is, is a GSM 850
network?

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"Joel Grealy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Can they call within the country, if so then the service has international
> call barring preventing calls outside the country they are in. They need
> to call their service provider and check the call barring settings.

Dont know if he tried dialling within the country, once he used 011 outgoing
access code all was fine

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> "Peelah Ben Arhna" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Michael J said....
>>
>>> How is she trying to dial out?
>>>
>>> Is she using +61xxxxxxxx?
>>
>> Apparently she's tried all possible combos that are available to her.
>> But what has us tossed is that she can send and receieve SMSes, but not
>> make voice calls.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
>
>

Joel Grealy said....

> Can they call within the country, if so then the service has
> international call barring preventing calls outside the country they are
> in. They need to call their service provider and check the call barring
> settings.

Dunno.

Will ask when they get home.



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"Peelah Ben Arhna" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Joel Grealy said....
>
>> Can they call within the country, if so then the service has
>> international call barring preventing calls outside the country they are
>> in. They need to call their service provider and check the call barring
>> settings.
>
> Dunno.
>
> Will ask when they get home.

slightly defeats the purpose ;-)

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> First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

Michael J said....

>> Dunno.
>>
>> Will ask when they get home.
>
> slightly defeats the purpose ;-)

At this point in time it doesn't really matter. They'll be home on
Friday. She's gone this long now without it, another coupla daze won't
matter.

I s'pose that the point of the story is that instead of relying on
roaming internationally, if you really need to carry a mobile whilst on
holidays (business trips are the exception), then simply get a cheap
pre-paid while visiting that country.

It'll be a cheaper exercise for starters, and you'll know that your
pre-paid will actually work. AND the costs of international calls to you
will be borne by the caller, not you as is the case with roaming.



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> I s'pose that the point of the story is that instead of relying on
> roaming internationally, if you really need to carry a mobile whilst on
> holidays (business trips are the exception), then simply get a cheap
> pre-paid while visiting that country.

No, just get your **** into gear before your go.

And if your carrier is too stupid to set up IntRoam, go to another one