SA was able to do that when she came back to the US. I don't know the details, though.
The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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Tom Scola - Aug 09, 2007 2:14:41 am PDT #8511 of 9843
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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).
esse - Aug 09, 2007 3:35:14 pm PDT #8519 of 9843
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
You can totally call international from a US cell. The only trick is to use the plus sign with the country code and then the number. So a UK number would be +44 873 4752 or something. (In the UK and Ireland you have to drop the 0 at the beginning of numbers, I don't know if that's true for Greece.)
ita, I thought you might be able to get a SIM with a contract, but I thought you were asking about pay as you go's.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2007 6:42:18 pm PDT #8520 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought you were asking about pay as you go's.
I was. Raq didn't think you could get a SIM in the US, though, and I wanted to correct that.