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Skids 
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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| luvdids wrote: | What's the best option for communication when overseas for 5 weeks? Buy an overseas phone/sim? Or buy one of those 'travel package' things from Telstra or Post Office etc. I would prefer to have my own number while away but not interested in a $2000+ bill to come home to.
The Telstra one that would suit the length of time I'm away is $250, not sure of any others.
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Free WiFi and call through Facebook when I needed to in the USA.
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5150 
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| luvdids wrote: | What's the best option for communication when overseas for 5 weeks? Buy an overseas phone/sim? Or buy one of those 'travel package' things from Telstra or Post Office etc. I would prefer to have my own number while away but not interested in a $2000+ bill to come home to.
The Telstra one that would suit the length of time I'm away is $250, not sure of any others.
Any suggestions most appreciated |
The best plan is to turn you bloody phone off.
If someone needs you, they can email you and you can check your emails from a café or hotel lobby etc. when it suits you.
I wont be calling you while your away with those deep breathing calls you like so who else is calling? |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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| 5150 wrote: | | luvdids wrote: | What's the best option for communication when overseas for 5 weeks? Buy an overseas phone/sim? Or buy one of those 'travel package' things from Telstra or Post Office etc. I would prefer to have my own number while away but not interested in a $2000+ bill to come home to.
The Telstra one that would suit the length of time I'm away is $250, not sure of any others.
Any suggestions most appreciated |
The best plan is to turn you bloody phone off.
If someone needs you, they can email you and you can check your emails from a café or hotel lobby etc. when it suits you.
I wont be calling you while your away with those deep breathing calls you like so who else is calling? |
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Morrigu 
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| luvdids wrote: | What's the best option for communication when overseas for 5 weeks? Buy an overseas phone/sim? Or buy one of those 'travel package' things from Telstra or Post Office etc. I would prefer to have my own number while away but not interested in a $2000+ bill to come home to.
The Telstra one that would suit the length of time I'm away is $250, not sure of any others.
Any suggestions most appreciated |
We have always just taken one phone and activated global roaming ( with Telstra) for calls and texts and deactivated data - that way we have the same number can make the occasional call and send and receive texts without great expense ( actually very little expense ) even when we have been away for months.
We utilise free wifi for emails web etc and when in countries - especially Africa where there is limited Wifi, we buy a local sim for the iPad and net access USB for the laptop - pretty cheap as well.
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Location: somewhere
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| luvdids wrote: | What's the best option for communication when overseas for 5 weeks? Buy an overseas phone/sim? Or buy one of those 'travel package' things from Telstra or Post Office etc. I would prefer to have my own number while away but not interested in a $2000+ bill to come home to.
The Telstra one that would suit the length of time I'm away is $250, not sure of any others.
Any suggestions most appreciated |
who is your mobile with?
im with aldi, which works on telstra lines, but doesnt have international roaming (i just checked!)
hubby has optus, calls in or out are $1 a minute, with the amount of calls he gets that can get pricey, but its mostly business calls so claimable. SMS is only 50c and free to receive. i will activate roaming before we leave and just use his phone.
however, i will take my phone and use WhatsApp Wechat viber to talk via wifi from the hotel etc. and as someone said facebook messenger is good.
the only person i really want contact available with 24/7 is the daughter who is staying home, so She will call hubbies phone.
when we went to Hawaii i bought the aust post sim, but it was bloody awful. never worked properly.
in the USA last time, we just bought a $30 prepaid with credit and used it for local calls. i think i still have it somewhere, if i can find it i'll take that and buy a sim.
$250 for 5 weeks, $50 a week, if you are travelling with someone and share, thats cheap, if travelling alone, its still cheap; on your own in another country, peace of mind of a familiar system, for 50 bucks is dirt cheap.
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luvdids
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thanks for the tips everyone.
Mobile's with Telstra, might take their package, although it didn't quite cover the whole trip. Or might do as 5150 suggested, don't use it, just to upload to FB & check emails etc when I'm at the hotel. I'm not going to miss the heavy breathing!  |
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5150
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| luvdids wrote: | thanks for the tips everyone.
Mobile's with Telstra, might take their package, although it didn't quite cover the whole trip. Or might do as 5150 suggested, don't use it, just to upload to FB & check emails etc when I'm at the hotel. I'm not going to miss the heavy breathing! |
Ok, naked pictures via email it is then! |
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Morrigu
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I couldn't work out where to put this - pretty cool I reckon!
Men in Iran don hijabs to show support for the women in their lives
MEN in Iran have taken to wearing hijabs as a show of support for the women they know who are forced to cover their hair.
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 women in Iran have been forced to wear headscarfs when out in public — a rule strictly enforced by the morality police. Women who refuse to wear a hijab or are deemed to be wearing a ‘bad hijab’ by having some of their hair showing face punishments ranging from fines to imprisonment.
http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/men-in-iran-don-hijabs-to-show-support-for-the-women-in-their-lives/news-story/7c7f43511196cba84bf541df93f8de03
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David
I dare you to try
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^ Great story. We might not hear much about it, but there is a progressive movement happening in Iran. The Ayatollah and his fellow patriarchs are slowly but surely losing their grip on their country's throat.
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Morrigu
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^ Yes indeed and poor old Turkey is going the other way 
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David
I dare you to try
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Yep.
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Jezza 
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Interesting story. Thanks for linking it, Morrigu.
Turkey's a lost cause under Erdogan.
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Morrigu
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^ yeah Turkey is in for a bleak time!
I reckon give it another year or two and Africa via Iran might be the go - Iran looks amazing 
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005
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| Morrigu wrote: | ^ yeah Turkey is in for a bleak time!
I reckon give it another year or two and Africa via Iran might be the go - Iran looks amazing |
Give it another year or 2 and the fundamentalists will put their attention back onto Iran and **** that up again too. No chance they'll let this progressive stuff go unchallenged for too long.
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swoop42 
Whatcha gonna do when he comes for you?
Joined: 02 Aug 2008
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A BEAST is stirring.
A legend will rise.
Yes, Rocketronnie is making a return.
Oh and little old me.
Soon.........
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