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Pedal2Medal00 · 04-04-2004, 1:05 PM

I am picking up an AT&T worldphone with International roaming service. I am traveling to Costa Rica in the summer but I am having trouble finding out how I can access cellular service down there without going satellite. If I brought my phone down there and it happened to register with Cosa Rica's ICE network, would I be able to make a credit card call even though AT&T doesn't have roaming agreements with ICE at this time? Or is there any other way (prepaid with another carrier that has a roaming agreement with ICE, exc.)?

All ideas welcome.

Thanks

ShoresGuy · 04-04-2004, 1:22 PM

I don't have a direct answer to the credit card portion of your question but I can tell you that roaming with a prepaid SIM from another country in a foreign country can be quite costly since you'd be charged for all calls and the costs for calls really drains a prepaid card quickly. A credit card as you have stated might be a better option.

Here is the roaming info for ICE:

http://www.grupoice.com/esp/serv/per...in_ing.htm#gsm

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