Originally Posted by
USMCFDX
You do not need an international plan with AT&T to make and receive calls while overseas. Your phone will ring and you can make calls. The per minute charge is lower with the international plan.
I let my phone ring all the time, check caller ID, then find a hotspot and return the call on Skye. If it is home, I send a text and ask if it is important and need to talk now or if there can be a delay.
I have no international plan.
Concur, I called AT&T and said "Turn on my International Service, no I do not want an international plan." It just means I pay a higher price per minute when I do make a call. Don't need the plan since I make most calls via Skype or FaceTime.
Have to be careful though. With AT&T, if it goes to voicemail it will be charged for as an international call; because, the call was "completed" [by going to voicemail] while you were overseas. It would also behoove you to learn how to retrieve your voicemail by using Skype to avoid additional charges.
Originally Posted by
MacMan
... I handed him my phone...
You fell for this? Second oldest Captain trick in the book, after "I don't have any change for the tip"
As long as the call is to FedEx, when a call needs to be made, I make it and expense it. I've called GOC several times domestically and handed him my phone, because it's the quickest way to resolve some problems. Internationally, I'll ask the ramp agent for his phone first, then ACARS, then make the call. Now tipping, that's a personal problem
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Originally Posted by
MacGuy2
I think where I'm really trying to go with this question, is how to actually use the phone itself. It's the country codes and whatever else you have to punch in to call back to the US, or to even call a ramp number in the country where you presently are located. If the Company's going to buy the call, then I'm not to worried about saving the last nickel...I just want to make the call!
I appreciate the other suggestions, BTW.
MG2
When I've made calls from other countries, I've just dialed the number and the iPhone was smart enough to put in the right exit prefix (011 or 1). The ramp numbers in the Pocket Calendar include the country code, but not the exit code (remember there is a ePocket Cal file to put on your phone). If you are using local country phones you can get good gouge here:
How to call the USA: country code, area codes, phone books
The only place I had a problem calling GOC was from Chile. Kept getting strange results when trying to use the 800 numbers. Finally got through on a 901 number. So now I always dial the 901 numbers from overseas.