On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:11:57 -0500, Dennis Ferguson
<dcferguson@pacbell.net> wrote in
<slrnf1drut.80.dcferguson@akit-ferguson.com>:

>On 2007-04-06, John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>>I think you are just repeating what I said above. If you want to phone
>>>Mexicans, or have them phone you, the local SIM is fine, but most people
>>>who spend a week away are generally more interested in phoning home.
>>
>> The big advantage of a local prepaid SIM for phoning home is free
>> incoming calls when used with an international callback service.
>
>?? They aren't free, you pay the callback service.

The _wireless_ is free, and the callback service is much cheaper than
international roaming.

>You should look
>at the price of calling a Mexican mobile phone these days; it's
>really, really not cheap. ...

SkypeOut to Mexico mobile is $0.336/minute. True, that's several times
more than the landline cost, but is still much cheaper than
international roaming.

>And when it was cheap to phone a Mexican
>mobile (before last November) they'd stiff you with incoming call
>charges plus a premium for internationally-originated calls. The
>Mexican phone companies suck.

True.

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