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Randall Gellens <rg+ietf@qualcomm.com> Thu, 29 July 2010 13:38 UTC

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At 10:09 AM +0200 7/29/10, Ben Campbell wrote:

>  The US carriers tend towards very high data roaming charges. You 
> can easily rack up charges in the multiple hundreds of euros range.

Well, the 10 Euro/day "business class" Internet access from Swisscom 
includes free phone calls anywhere in the world.  While their 
Internet access failed, their voice service was fine.  Maybe this is 
an option instead of expensive roaming charges?

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