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cingular text to the p.i. used to be free and unlimited on my plan before a couple of months ago so my phone bill was only around $70-80/mo., but since cingular is charging for their international texts my phone bill has jumped to around $150/mo. using chikkatxt helps out alot, because when she replies there it's only P2.50/text. another way to text is to get one of those local numbers there that they can text to for P1.00/text and when you text there it's only $0.05. my uncle uses it, but i forget what the service is called. if you have any filipino stores around your area they'll know what i'm talking about.
ed talking to her, cingular text messages were free, then they started charging. For the months of September and October I racked up a phone bill around 290. I call once a week now and the bill's gone down to around 120, with cingular texting. For the past week, I've tried out Yahoo's pc to phone service, and it's pretty good. I haven't been disconnected yet and the quality over the headset I'm using is alrite. Do you need another cell phone or another device to get a local number from over there? .05 per text does sound alot better than .20 per text that cingular's charging.
Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions. They're really helping me alot.
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