"Rick" <Rick@nospam.com> wrote in
news:%hHQj.2336$LQ4.2109@newssvr11.news.prodigy.ne t:

> If you have a US cellphone and you visit another country and call back
> to the US, do you dial the number in the usual manner, or do you need
> to enter the country code?
>
>

You must always enter the country code, which gives your permission to call
a foreign country from the country you're in. This assumes, of course,
your US Sellphone is operable in the foreign country, which it may not be
as we use different frequency bands in the USA than most everyplace else on
the planet, not to mention our queer array of haphazard digital modulation
schemes to slow down the churning.....

Which country you going to? There are MUCH cheaper ways of doing it than
what you're suggesting!

To call my US Sellphone from England, for instance, you simply dial my
English Skype telephone number, a local call in London. Skype notices I'm
not online and forwards all calls to my Alltel Sellphone. You pay for
local call....I pay for airtime if it's a weekday. MUCH cheaper than
overseas LD from the greedy bastards at US carriers....