On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:52:20 -0500, Janet Wilder
> wrote:

>sf wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:01:45 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm thinking about renting
>>> "global" cell phone for when I go.
>>
>> How do you rent a phone? Is it rented from Verizon?
>>
>I believe it is. I haven't called to ask yet. We're not going to Europe
>until the Fall.

Huh! No kidding? I just looked it up... if they had that option, it
wasn't cheap when we went to Europe a couple of years ago. We bought
a phone card from CostCo when we went a couple of years ago. It was
pretty cheap and if you don't mind punching all those numbers, not too
bad otherwise.

Apparently, if you go to Italy - switching out a SIM for a TIM works
(and they're easy to "refill"), but friends who went to France at
virtually the same time as we did had nothing but trouble. They even
bought a new cell phone over there, but it didn't work for them
either.

We made all the calls we wanted or needed to make with our phone card,
couldn't get incoming calls directly - of course.

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