Phone works in Buenos Aires - but how to dial?

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bwooster47@gmail.com - 26 Mar 2007 01:38 GMT

This was unexpected - I was told that the Sanyo 4900 phone got a
signal, and a dial tone down in Buenos Aires.

But all attempts to dial failed - presumably because some arrangements
or roaming plans need to be added to the Sprint plans in the US -
anyone here in the US with SprintPCS service and a US phone, able to
use their phone to dial (or to receive even local calls in Buenos
Aires)?

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Todd Allcock - 26 Mar 2007 02:07 GMT

> This was unexpected - I was told that the Sanyo 4900 phone got a
> signal, and a dial tone down in Buenos Aires.

Amazing! Not the roaming in Buenos Aires part, but the fact that your
cellphone gets a "dial tone!" ;-)

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Andrew267@gmail.com - 29 Mar 2007 01:22 GMT

Voice Pricing: $1.99 Minute,
For International Roaming service call 1-888-226-7212 while in the US
or +1-817-698-4199 while traveling outside of the US.
You must first be approved for credit level since this is very
expensive, check out the sprint worldwide site for more details.
http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/coverage/internationalroaming/Results.jsp?bmFo
rm=InternationalRoamingSearch&bmFormID=1175127562545&bmUID=1175127562545&bmIsFor
m=true&bmPrevTemplate=explore%2Fcoverage%2Finternationalroaming%2FResults.jsp&bm
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Chris Pisarra - 17 Apr 2007 16:31 GMT

bwooster47@gmail.com burbled to the world:

> This was unexpected - I was told that the Sanyo 4900 phone got a
> signal, and a dial tone down in Buenos Aires.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> use their phone to dial (or to receive even local calls in Buenos
> Aires)?

I spent hours on the phone with Sprint International before
I went to South America a few months ago, updated software and PRL, made
arrangements, and could never actually complete a call.

Invariably I got a nice spanish lady telling me that it was not
possible to complete my call as dialed---although dialing the same thing
on my wife's Cingular phone worked just fine.

Sprint also claimed that their phone would work on the cruise
ship, but the cruise ship had never heard of that idea at all.

E-mailing Sprint got me advice to call the International
number--as if somehow I could magically make a call!

There are plenty of places marked "Locutorio" where you can
make a call home cheap. Plan on using them.

Chris--

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to
achieve it through not dying. ---Woody
Allen

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