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Rick - 07 Jul 2005 13:08 GMT

We recently signed up for the Cingular family plan with 1000 free minutes,
unlimited night and weekend, unlimited mobile to mobile, and no long
distance and no roaming. I have two questions. First, if we call another
Cingular customer mobile to mobile while the person is out of the country,
how will we be charged. We are calling from our home city and the other
person is in Italy.

Second, if the four of us who are on the family plan are all out of the
country at the same time and we call one another while we are all together,
how will we be charged. In this case, we would all be in the Bahamas.

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Jer - 07 Jul 2005 13:25 GMT

> We recently signed up for the Cingular family plan with 1000 free minutes,
> unlimited night and weekend, unlimited mobile to mobile, and no long
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> country at the same time and we call one another while we are all together,
> how will we be charged. In this case, we would all be in the Bahamas.

Why are you calling each other when you're all together?

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Rick - 07 Jul 2005 13:56 GMT

>> We recently signed up for the Cingular family plan with 1000 free
>> minutes,
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> Why are you calling each other when you're all together?

I meant together in the same country...

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Joseph - 07 Jul 2005 15:41 GMT

>We recently signed up for the Cingular family plan with 1000 free minutes,
>unlimited night and weekend, unlimited mobile to mobile, and no long
>distance and no roaming. I have two questions. First, if we call another
>Cingular customer mobile to mobile while the person is out of the country,
>how will we be charged. We are calling from our home city and the other
>person is in Italy.

If you in the US are calling someone's cingular number but they are in
Italy the call is handled just as if they were in the US. If you're
cingular and they're cingular it will be considered mobile-to-mobile.

>Second, if the four of us who are on the family plan are all out of the
>country at the same time and we call one another while we are all together,
>how will we be charged. In this case, we would all be in the Bahamas.

Once you leave your home area even though you may be all on the same
network you're using someone else's network so you will not be
eligible for mobile-to-mobile *especially* if you're international!

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Tropical Haven - 08 Jul 2005 01:26 GMT

> >We recently signed up for the Cingular family plan with 1000 free minutes,
> >unlimited night and weekend, unlimited mobile to mobile, and no long
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> network you're using someone else's network so you will not be
> eligible for mobile-to-mobile *especially* if you're international!

The only time you can use mobile to mobile outside the U.S. is with a qualifying
plan (such as in Canada with the old ATT North American AND you have unlimited
mobile-to-mobile, or if you have Cingular's North American plan and you have
mobile-to-mobile (500 minutes, for example) and you are in Canada or Mexio).

There are 2 charges to worry about:

1) dialing charge (long distance)
2) roaming charge

If you dial a phone that happens to be in Italy, you are dialing a US number, so
it is billes as a US number. However, if you are both in the Bahamas, dialing a
US number from the Bahamas will result in a long distance charge, as well as a
roaming charge. The receiving phone would only have a roaming charge.

TH

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SFB - 07 Jul 2005 22:14 GMT

Depending on which international plan you choose to join AND PAY FOR you
will pay the per minute rate when YOU are OUT OF THIS COUNTRY and
roaming. The person who is OUT OF THE COUNTRY will always pay the
appropriate international rate for ALL minutes ... again depends on the
Int'l plan you pay for... e.g. Italy would be $1.29 a minute with the
cheap plan and .99 a minute with the more expensive plan... the person
in Italy could also be charged for not even answering their phone and
getting a voice mail message left for them. It may be an additional
charge to retrieve that voice message.

Now, if you had TMobile all calls within most European countries are .99
a minute and you don't have to pay for a separate "international" plan...

Hope this helps... I always buy a local SIM card when traveleing in
Italy... in April it cost just 10 Euro for the SIM and even a few
prepaid minutes... Just make sure your phone is "unlocked" before
leaving home and it is an Int'l phone that has the correct frequencies.

SFB

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