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Roaming Questions
A. Plastic
Roaming is where you are given a new SIM card by your network that is to
be used on a foreign network Automatic Roaming is when you just make the
arrangements with your carrier before you go and turn you phone on when
you arrive in the country you're roaming to. The bonus with Automatic Roaming
is that you keep your number, the drawback is that you're charged heavily
for calls. See below for more information on this. Q. How are
the calls to and from me charged? A. There are
TWO answers to this. a) Automatic roaming. The caller
is charged as if you're still in your home country. You pay the international
leg of the call ie. from your country to the country you're in. If you have
your phone set to divert on no answer, dirvert on busy etc to your voicemail,
you pay for the leg back to your home country. So you pay for TWO international
legs. If you set diversion you MUST set divert ALL calls and you will not
be billed for any international legs. b) Card Roaming. You are given
a new number and callers calling you pay for the call to that country. You
don't pay the international leg. the only inconvience is you don't have
your old number, however a new voicemail message could inform callers of
your new number.