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[*] posted on 7-10-2005 at 12:44 PM


$59/month for 450 minutes (plus roll-over to the next month), no long-distance charges, no roaming charges, coverage all over Baja and the mainland. I'd call that a good deal.
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[*] posted on 7-10-2005 at 01:01 PM
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Man, some of you people sure pay a lot of dough for Phone Service. It must be my faint Jewish roots, but I just make it a point to not use the phone unless it is necessary.

I've had an ATT service with the cheapest regional plan (29.99+taxes=34.99) for years now (with no international plan) and it has worked fine everytime calling the U.S. albeit with a high per minute charge. Last year I bought a prepaid Telcel Nokia phone for $39.99 with 300 pesos of airtime. The per minute charge to the U.S. is much better, you can add prepaid time in 100 peso increments and it is good for 60 days with the time rolling over whenever you add to it. ATT/Cingular will work wherever Telcel does because they use the same network.

BTW, coming North last week, I got a beep on my ATT phone and the display said I had a new text message. I thought, what the Heck, I don't have text messaging.
It was a text message from Cingular telling me what a great deal it was. Pretty sly.
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[*] posted on 7-10-2005 at 01:26 PM


I don't pay anything. My company pays the bill (for phone/Blackberry). I had them put me on this plan so they don't b@tch about $300/month charges in MX. Have world-wide data roaming on Blackberry. The new 7100g is an amazing machine.

I use Skype for long-distance at my house down there (2 cents per minute, bought $10 worth about two months ago and I'm down to $7 credit).
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[*] posted on 7-10-2005 at 04:18 PM
Skype ??


How much latency is there on the Skype ? I'm using Crystal Voice on my DirecWay in Baja and it's OK for checking and clearing my U.S. Voicemail numbers, but it's damn irritating when you have to conduct business. During my last trip, I had one Dish Receiver that I had to have reauthorized. Since a good call to tech support is going to take 15-20 minutes or longer, I used the Crystal Voice. It worked, although the tech almost hung up on me a number of times, even though I kept repeating that I was on an Internet phone and there was a delay.
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[*] posted on 7-10-2005 at 05:53 PM


I use it with DSL. It would have the same problem w/DirecWay.
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