[RTC List] Wireless advice

[Julia]

I've have been 95% in Humboldt for over 5 years - no additional charges. My
G1 phone even works great dispite that fact that it's a bit slow on a non-3G
network.
I do not have a need for any additional lines at this time.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:46 PM, William Van Hefner <
vantek at humboldtonline.com> wrote:

> Julia,
>
> I've never seen a T-Mobile contract before, but most cellphone carriers
> will shut your phone off if more than 50% of your airtime is used in a
> roaming area for more than one billing cycle. They lose money anytime you
> call from a roaming area.
>
> If you really need a local phone number, you can always just buy a local
> DID from a VoIP provider and have that number forward calls directly to
> your cellphone
>
> I actually ported my own home phone number over to a VoIP provider and now
> have all of my calls forwarded to my cell if I am not at home. I pay
> around $10 a month, which gets me unlimited forwarded calls, incoming
> calls and unlimited long distance calls within California, voicemail, etc.
> Most importantly (to me, at least) it also lets me reject or divert calls
> from any phone numbers I choose, which is great for telemarketers or
> people I wish I had never given my phone number out to in the first place!
> For the REALLY pesky telemarketers, I just have incoming calls loop back
> to their own 800 #. That way, anytime they dial my number, they just
> wind-up calling themselves! Isn't technology wonderful? :-)
>
>
> --
> William Van Hefner
> President - Vantek Communications, Inc.
> e-mail: vantek at humboldtonline.com
>
> On Tue, January 20, 2009 8:23 pm, Julia wrote:
> > As far as I know, Tmobile doesn't do roaming as part of their billing. I
> > can see on my Tmobile phones that I'm bouncing from Edge and US Cellular
> > towers most of the time and my coverage seems more or less that same as
> > the people around me. Of course, that doesn't mean Tmobile will signup
> > people in this area - I could only get a 707-228-**** number. I just
> > haven't had to pay any extra fees for usage in this area.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM, William Van Hefner <
> > vantek at humboldtonline.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> T-Mobile - No service locally. I'm not sure that they even allow their
> >> customers to roam in this area.
>
>
>
>
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