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msbelle - Aug 07, 2007 5:51:58 am PDT #8509 of 9843
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2007 10:30:50 pm PDT #8510 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not sure exactly where this belongs...
My family's over here, and text messages sent between us are now delayed by at least half an hour, despite (actually because of) being in the same room.
I know going abroad buying a local SIM card is the way to go--can you do that in the US? She got her phone to work like a local in Kenya, but even though I'm on one of the GSM networks here I don't know about getting on them on a temporary basis.
Tom Scola - Aug 09, 2007 2:14:41 am PDT #8511 of 9843
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
SA was able to do that when she came back to the US. I don't know the details, though.
esse - Aug 09, 2007 9:21:47 am PDT #8512 of 9843
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Unfortunately I wasn't -- there were some advertisements at local shops for pre-paid sim cards, but they were kind of sketch. The closest thing we have to the system in the UK is Cingular's pay as you go, which you can pick up at wal-mart, but in so far as I know you can't pick up just a SIM card, you have to buy the card plus the phone. There's a chance that going to a Cingular store (or others; my family just happens to use Cingular) and purchasing a sim card, but from what I understand they make you do a bunch of paperwork for it.
I ended up just using payphones until I got back to TN and my parents loaned me a spare SIM; which was ridiculously expensive ($1 per call!) and inconvenient.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2007 9:31:42 am PDT #8513 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Blah. I guess we won't be texting while she's here, then.
How irritating. Ya know, if it's easy to use the tech in the third world, it shouldn't be this hard here.
esse - Aug 09, 2007 11:28:30 am PDT #8514 of 9843
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
This is what I'm saying, seriously.
Volans - Aug 09, 2007 11:41:36 am PDT #8515 of 9843
move out and draw fire
Cellphones in the US suck beyond all reason.
Well, this answers one of my two cellphone questions - I was thinking that I could stick a local SIM card in my phone from Greece, like you do, but no one could tell me where to get a SIM in the US.
Also, as far as I can tell, there's no way to call an international number using a US cellphone.
Cass - Aug 09, 2007 11:43:44 am PDT #8516 of 9843
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I've done the international from a US cell. Actually international and to a ship in Greece, if that makes a difference. But it was a long time ago and I don't remember much more than it was fantastically expensive and maybe not the best interpersonal idea I have ever had.
meara - Aug 09, 2007 11:47:54 am PDT #8517 of 9843
I've called Canada....which doesn't require extra numbers, but does COST extra...
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2007 12:02:51 pm PDT #8518 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Also, as far as I can tell, there's no way to call an international number using a US cellphone.
I could call Jamaica and the UK and I think Russia and Kenya--but certainly the first two--from my Cingular phone.
And you can get a SIM card with a contract (that's what I intend to do--buy an unlocked phone and just sign up with T-Mobile and get their SIM).