fatbrit wrote:
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> I'd forget both your phone, GSM and the sim card, pop in to a Walmart
> (www.walmart.com -- search for cell phone and phone card) as your first
> stop and buy a Virgin phone for $20 and some minutes. It's pay as you go
> and you'll find the plans here: http://www.virginmobileusa.com/. If you
> need to phone abroad from it, buy a phone card as well while you're at
> Wally World. On your way out of the country, give it to the cab driver
> at the airport as the tip.
>
> If you walk into a cell phone place over here and start talking about
> sim cards, even a GSM supplier, they'll initially tell you either that
> they don't speak Spanish, or they'll start speaking Spanish to you, or
> they'll just call the cops and suggested that they cart you to the
> hospital for evaluation. It's different over here -- don't bother
> fighting it as it isn't worth it.
>
I support this statement. The cellphone business in US is totally
different from the rest fot he world, well at leats Aisa. For example,
it's cheaper to make lon distance call from a cellphone than from a
landline in Thailand. Well, that's what my sister-in-law tells me.
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