Freedom Phone: Roam without the high rates
Anyone that has a cell phone and has traveled abroad with it will know that roaming chargers are a killer. Every carrier I know or have used will rip you off. To be honest the best solution is to buy a local pay as you go SIM card in the country you are visiting and use that. Well that is until now…
The Freedom Phone makes life even easier than that. Is is a small pre-paid phone, with a somewhat unique and quirky design, that doesn’t require a SIM card. When you arrive in the country you are visiting you can buy a Freedom Phone with 60, 100 or 200 minutes, charge it up (which takes 10 minutes) and you are good to go - no roaming charges at all. The phone number, important service and other information are located on the back of the Freedom Phone.
Personally I would probably still stick to the SIM card option, and for calling try using Skype as much as possible!
Via [Yanko Design]
EU reduces roaming charges
I was in Europe last spring and came back completely broke. My losses did have something to do with the less than optimal exchange rates but I have been consistently blaming my cell phone (that rate are astronomical).
EU officials are finally turning up the heat on European carriers. A new proposal would make it free to receive a call when abroad in addition to being charged at “home rates” when making an in-country call. Government figures show that currently, a 4-minute call received from the UK while in Italy results in a steep £3.80 ($6.65) tariff from O2 or £3.04 ($5.32) with Vodafone. The proposal has the support of 25 nations with EU commissioner, Viviane Reding, stating that the new pricing could be in effect by summer of 2007 if the European Parliament and national governments moved quickly.
Read [Engadget Mobile]
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