[pypy-sprint] Pycon sprint coming up soon now!

[Richard Emslie]

Hi Holger, Hi Jacob,

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Jacob [iso-8859-1] Hallén wrote:
> On tisdag 15 mars 2005 14:37, holger krekel wrote:

>> And does anyone know if it's sensible to try get an
>> US mobile phone card to use with my mobile phone?

It is possible to buy an off the shelf sim card with no questions asked. 
I bought a T-Mobile card for 50$ and got 50$ talk time.  I have never 
dared to called overseas with this and it does charge for toll free 
numbers and incoming calls.  Only really usual if expecting to make a 
lot of phone calls and receive phone calls within the us.  Txt messaging 
is 10c anywhere in the world.

> Please note that it can be _very_ expensive to call from your hotel. The
> cheapest solution is usually to buy a pre-paid calling card and place your
> phone calls from a coin operated phone (they are everywhere in the US, but
> you need some change to get your prepaid card to start working).

From experience - most budget hotels allow toll free numbers which prepaid 
cards use.  A 10$ prepaid calling card will give around 1hr overseas 
talktime.

Cheers,
Richard