After having dug to a depth of 10 meters, Scottish scientists found traces
of copper wire dating back 1,000 years and came to the conclusion that their
ancestors already had a telephone network more than 1,000 years ago.
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Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English
scie
Hi!
My husband & I are planning a short trip overseas next month ... to Germany
or perhaps to Switzerland. In any event, it is important for me to have a
telephone calling card that will let me call my elderly father to check on him
while I am away. When my husband worked in either Italy
When I travel now, I call the provider for my cell phone, which is
compatible with European technology, and have them put on a "international
package"
for the duration of the visit. As I recall it was quite cheap, $5 or $10
dollars. The calls were more expensive, possibly $1.99/minute to the
Devon ...
I actually checked with my cell phone provider regarding making calls from
Europe to the US. I was told in no uncertain terms that it is not possible for
me to do so & that if I even tried to make such a call then my service with
them would be immediately cancelled. I was quite
For what its worth, my phone is one from AT&T wireless and they have been
more than happy to sell me European compatible phones and to reap profit from
international calls. If I did not put on the international package, my phone
would simply not be able to call the US, so there is no need to
Devon ...
This is the most confusing thing I have ever had to deal with. My phone does
indeed sell an "overseas package" but it is for calling from here to overseas,
not the other way around. I felt like I was going to have the CIA monitoring
me after receiving the response I did from th
In the UK a basic cheap 'pay as you talk' (buy call credit in advance and no
contract) mobile phone (no pictures, no extra ringtones, etc) start at
around GBP15.00
You can see a selection (sort by price low to high) at
http://direct.tesco.com/q/N.1999606/Nr.99.aspx?Ns=P_SORT_Price
Then you'd
Hello all,
I was not able to use my telephone calling cards in Europe, and it's true that
pay phones are not readily available over there, where I visited. Have you
considered possibly using Skype?? If you have a laptop or access to a computer,
and one of those Skype-compatible phones, you can
My DH travels a lot. he has an AT&T phone card available anywhere in the
states. He got his from Walmart. He used that to phone home. His is for 1000
minutes in the US but overseas it uses up more minutes, it would be worth 100
minutes but you can add to it at anytime with a credit card in t
