Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:22:45 -0400 Monty Solomon quoted an article:
Sky-high travel phone bills nearly bust house payment
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> By Christopher Elliott
> Tribune Media Services
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> (Tribune Media Services) -- When it comes to "gotcha" fees, the
> cellular phone industry makes travel companies look like rank
> amateurs.
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> Take what happened to P. Morgan Brown when his wife decided to take a
> spur-of-the-moment vacation to Indonesia.
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> Her Verizon bill came to a staggering $8,000. Text-messages home cost
> an astounding $2.50 each and the meter was running at an eye-popping
> $1.75 a minute for phone calls.
It's too bad that this person got the huge bills but I don't feel that sorry for anyone who just "goes" somewhere with a device that has the potential to run up huge bills without investigating what their travel with their device is going to cost them.
I am well aware of the high cost of roaming and data roaming charges and that's why I get prepaid SIMs when I visit other countries and if someone calls me on my own number I have that covered too since I have my calls forwarded to my foreign number. I use the Kall8 service, but there are others that work as well such as VoiceStick.