BigBear Design » travel http://bigbeardesign.net/blog Websites for Small Businesses Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:52:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Roaming is so Farkin’ Expensive http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/2008/roaming-is-so-farkin-expensive/ http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/2008/roaming-is-so-farkin-expensive/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:25:37 +0000 emil http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/?p=19 I was in Hong Kong for a weekend last month to do some interviews for Popular Airsoft. We figured we’ll only be there for three days so there wasn’t much urgency to buy prepaid cards while we’re there. Then last week my phone bill arrived with P800 in total roaming charges. WTF I only made one quick call and sent three text messages for the whole stay! Well, plus a few more minutes of incoming calls. The guy I went there with, who made all the calls for arrangements, racked up more than P3,000 roaming charges. Un-fckin-believable.

Lesson learned: just buy a prepaid sim. I just found out it only costs HK$68 in any 7-Eleven and should work with a spare Nokia 1100.

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