Here is what I did on a recent two month trip to Namibia: Jailbroke my iPhone. Bought a local SIM card at the Namibia airport. Used prepay scratch cards (available at almost every store) to ad minutes/data to my SIM card. In Namibia, the major cell carrier charges N$1 for one minute of talk time or 1MB of data use.
If you have an iPhone 4 or a jailbroken 3G or 3GS, Skype can run in the background and receive incoming calls if needed. I gave my wife my local Namibian number and she would call me from Skype either on her phone or on her computer. The charges were cheap. It ended up being cheapest to call from Skype on her end to the cell number (not Skype) on my end, but calling out using Skype on my end wasn't very expensive. Much cheaper than the overseas/roaming charges. Plus, if you are anywhere with free wifi, Skype to Skype is free, and regular old skype to US cell doesn't use up any data on your iPhone. On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:24 , Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > >> call ATT. We went to Spain last year and for $5.95 a month we could make >> and receive call. It's like a dollar a minute (give or take depending on >> which countries you are visiting). > > The tightwad in me is breaking out in a rash. I'm holding out for Skype-like > prices (2.3ยข a minute), and hoping there is some way to finagle Google Voice > and Skype to get something similar on incoming calls. There has to be some > sort of catch on the data plan, though. > > Thanks for the tip, though. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
