Am in the UK. A few years ago I got an email account from Freeserve where I could put any characters before the @ sign that I wanted to. Like this: anything@my-identifier.freeserve.co.uk
I'm off to the US in a month's time and think it would be good for me and the missus to have phones with us. We both have UK contract phones, but want to avoid UK call charges. ie Buy a US sim deal. We intended to do this last year, but when we arrived found there were