Visit the Cingular web site, look at plans for your market. Click on
roaming, then international. I'll paste in my costs, for 38111:

Telecom Italia Mobile TIM 900/1800MHz #222 01 $1.29 N/A

You'd see network TIM or 222-010 or -01, operate on 1800 MHz, and
pay $1.29/minute for calls delivered to you in Italy--probably the
same amount for intra-Italy calls, and probably also for calls home
to the USA. I'm not sure about calls to a third country. I haven't
gone abroad with my SIM, yet, either.

John C.

SIM cards are cheaper. Check out Telestial, it's where I get my SIMs
from. For some countries (including Italy), ALL INCOMING CALLS are
FREE!!

http://www.telestial.com/

I just went to Rome and used my T316 for 3 weeks, not alot at 1.29 a minate
but it was cheaper than 80 bucks for a Italian SIM card plus airtime......
It worked great every time I needed it..