[IP] more on now talking about cellular ripoff
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From: Eric Glover <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 29, 2006 9:10:45 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
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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