One of the problems with traveling is the cost of calling home. I enabled roaming on Meteor, but it’s a bit pricey at €1.39/minute or €0.32/sms. I checked roam4free as well but that appears to be more expensive yet at €2.50/min.
Enter Skype where I can buy credits and call an Irish landline for €0.02/min or Irish mobile phone for €0.184. It’s great as everywhere in San Francisco I’ve traveled to has WiFi access. This morning I roamed about the house with my laptop in hand, headset on and spoke to my wife Jacinta for over 18 minutes and it cost me less than €4. That’s pretty cool and it was great to hear her and baby Adam.
It’s not quite the same sort of roaming but WiFi is fairly ubiquitous in the United States, so Skype on my laptop is painless, and very cheap.
Later … Out of curiosity I checked how much it costs to ring a mobile phone from an Irish landline. I use UTV’s service and Skype is cheaper at all times except for the weekend. Crazy stuff!
We will have 15c in and out on 1st of October plus wait for the wifi, no need to open your laptop we will give you the phone
Let me know if you pop up to Seattle!
yep. someday Google will have free Wifi all over the USA. Now you can only get it around Mountain View….
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THE LISBON TREATY WILL HERALD IN A NEW ERA OF JEDI PEACE. IT WILL BRING TRUE BALANCE TO THE FORCE. THERE ARE MANY JEDI IN BRUSSELS. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO MAKE UP FOR YOUR SHAMEFUL BEHAVIOR LAST JUNE,
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