[73778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT- need a new GSM provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vijay gill)
Thu Sep 2 21:44:04 2004
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:42:57 +0000
From: vijay gill <vgill@vijaygill.com>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: Joe Rhett <jrhett@meer.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040902182245.05d4f930@mira-sjc5-b.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:23:31PM -0700, Fred Baker wrote:
>
> At 06:04 PM 09/02/04 -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
> >> Also note due to fraud mitigation, most phones only allow you to call
> >> within the country you are in or back to the home country, all the while
> >> charging you an exhorbitant price.
> >
> >Um, sorry but I've never seen this. I used to world-roam on AT&T, and now
> >I do it with T-Mobile and never had any such drama.
>
> ditto. color me clueless, but AT&T worked once upon a time, and T-Mobile
> works quite well for me now.
This is more of an issue in SE asia in my experience than in europe.
/vijay
