SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:47fb03cb$0$36394$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:

> My child is going on an exchange student program to Taiwan, and while
> I'm giving her a phone with a prepaid SIM card, most of the students
> won't be able to buy prepaid SIM cards because their sale is very
> restricted now.
>
> I checked the international roaming rates in Taiwan, and was rather
> shocked to find that Verizon is actually the lowest cost wireless
> service in terms of roaming there.
>
> Verizon is $1.29/minute.
> T-Mobile is $1.49/minute.
> AT&T is $1.99 per minute.
> Sprint is $1.99/minute.
>
> When I was in Taiwan last month, I also found that I could actually get
> service on CDMA much more readily than GSM, because the GSM
> infrastructure cannot handle the volumes of calls in a country as
> densely populated as Taiwan (2nd most densely populated country in the
> world, but really the most densely populated when you eliminate the
> uninhabitable mountainous interior.

Translation- they simply don't fleece their customers to the same level as
everyone else.

I wouldn't be bragging about a $1.29/minute rate.