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Re: [106attendees] wifi at ietf hotels?

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Mon, 11 November 2019 19:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [106attendees] wifi at ietf hotels?
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>> At $10/day it's quite expensive.  Why not get a SIM card at $15 for the week?  You can get them at the airport, too.
>
> At least for it cost me $4+$1(fed fee)/minute to call the Fairmont Singapore. A truly astounding rip-off.
>
> If I got a SIM card, wouldn't it then cost me $5/minute for my wife back 
> in the US to call the number that SIM card provided me? If so I'll take 
> $10/day vs $5/minute, and keep the US number. :)

That entirely depends on your choice of US phone provider.  My VoIP 
carrier charges 1.8c/minute to call Singapore mobiles, my Tracfone prepaid 
mobile includes Singapore in their no-surcharge int'l dialround service.

On the other hand, if you call from an AT&T mobile phone it's $4/min, or 
16c/min with their $5/min "discount" plan, so don't do that.  Tracfone 
uses AT&T's network, but definitely not AT&T's rates.

If you get the $30 Singapore SIM, it includes 90 mins of calls to the US, 
so perhaps your wife could send you a message using Signal or Whatsapp, 
and you could call her back.  That's what I usually do.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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