[73789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT- need a new GSM provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Fri Sep 3 10:22:02 2004
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
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, 2 Sep 2004, 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.
t-mobile usa has significant holes in thier roaming agreements as far as
I'm concerned... the most glaring ones in my recent past were korea
telecom, and sonatel (senegal). t-mobile deutschland of course roams both
places.
joelja
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