more on now talking about cellular ripoff

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From: Eric Glover <[email protected]>
Date: November 29, 2006 9:10:45 AM EST
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IP] now talking about cellular ripoff

Actually, it is worse than that.

When I was in Budapest a few years ago with Cingular. What would  
happen is if someone called and I choose not to answer it, I would  
get billed for 2 minutes of Intl LD (about $1.49/minute) for every  
minute of voicemail they left. Basically, I got billed for forwarding  
the call to Europe, then if the call went to voicemail, I would get  
billed for making a call from Europe back to the US for as long as  
they were on the phone.

The way I delt with that was using GSM there is a way to set 'forward  
all calls' - so I forwarded all of my calls directly to voicemail. If  
someone calls, it goes straight to voicemail (at no cost to me). If  
they leave a message then for free I get a voicemail notification. I  
could use a local calling card from a payphone (or from my cell) and  
call into to check my voicemail.  The biggest disadvantage is I can't  
get the caller-ID info.

IF you turn off your forward 'no-answer' then you will probably only  
get billed if you pick up, but if you don't pick up, then it won't go  
to voicemail.

-Eric

David Farber wrote:
> Say I am in Tokyo and someone rings my 1412 cell number in the USA.  
> My cell phone rings and I see it is not an important call so I  
> either reject it or don't answer.
> Still I get billed $1.99 for a 1 minute call UNLESS I power off my  
> phone.
> Thats T-mobile. RIP OFF
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