The co-workers and I all have a different kind of pda-smart phone. Jeff has an iPhone and Heath a BB Curve on AT&T, David a Palm on Sprint, and I have a BB Pearl on T-Mo.
When I head out to Italy for work, I don't have to make any calls or arrangements with T-Mo, all i have to do is turn on the phone and it will search for the nearest available network. When I was on vacation in Europe, I was able to get T-Mo in all of the countries as T-Mo, I believe, is originally a German company. Anyhow, I use my phone to text, to check and return emails, to chat on google and yahoo messenger, and genearlly surf the net. I was in Italy for one week and my cell bill came out to $90. My regular monthly bill is $60. Not too bad. It was the yahoo messenger that really did me in I think. They get charged as texts I believe.
Heath is about to go on vacation to Mexico. He calls AT&T. They tell him he has to pay $30/month charge to get international calls (allll the way in Mexico) and you have to sign up for 1 year! PLUS, all calls are $1 a minute. WTH! And let's not even talk about the data charges.
Then Jeff comes up to me and is like, "OMG Kris, my cell bill from when we were in Italy was $500!" Mind you, he was only in Italy for 2 days and he was careful not to use his iphone to check emails, etc. because they had told him it would be expensive. When he takes a closer look at his bill, there are data plan charges on his phone... for when he's actually on the plane flying out to Italy, unless there is some sort of time difference issue. Either way, he's either getting screwed by an error on their part, or by their crazy data plan.
I think I will stick with my t-mo.
When I head out to Italy for work, I don't have to make any calls or arrangements with T-Mo, all i have to do is turn on the phone and it will search for the nearest available network. When I was on vacation in Europe, I was able to get T-Mo in all of the countries as T-Mo, I believe, is originally a German company. Anyhow, I use my phone to text, to check and return emails, to chat on google and yahoo messenger, and genearlly surf the net. I was in Italy for one week and my cell bill came out to $90. My regular monthly bill is $60. Not too bad. It was the yahoo messenger that really did me in I think. They get charged as texts I believe.
Heath is about to go on vacation to Mexico. He calls AT&T. They tell him he has to pay $30/month charge to get international calls (allll the way in Mexico) and you have to sign up for 1 year! PLUS, all calls are $1 a minute. WTH! And let's not even talk about the data charges.
Then Jeff comes up to me and is like, "OMG Kris, my cell bill from when we were in Italy was $500!" Mind you, he was only in Italy for 2 days and he was careful not to use his iphone to check emails, etc. because they had told him it would be expensive. When he takes a closer look at his bill, there are data plan charges on his phone... for when he's actually on the plane flying out to Italy, unless there is some sort of time difference issue. Either way, he's either getting screwed by an error on their part, or by their crazy data plan.
I think I will stick with my t-mo.
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