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Article #879Re: Avoiding International Roaming Gotchas
From: Rod Speed
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:38
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:38
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Liron wrote: > No, you don't pay for receiving SMS's while overseas except in limited circumstances, e.g. on ships at sea Thats just plain wrong. > and even then, I'm not sure if that's true for all carriers. > An even better strategy than diverting calls to voicemail is to divert them to a message taking service. They take > the message and send it via SMS. That way you don't have to call voicemail and pay huge calling rates. You still have to pay for that service. > Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote >> Nom-de-plume wrote >>> Anyone see any problems with this strategy for avoiding >>> international roaming gotchas (including lebara SPAM)? >>> 1 unconditionally diversion of all voice calls to voicemail; >>> 2 voicemail message to ask callers to send >>> urgent messages only by SMS, or use email. >> You wont get the SMSs without getting slugged for them. >>> The intentional is to avoid the fees and charges gotchas. >> Doesnt work.
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