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global roaming

Filed under: travel — August 19, 2004

As a nice follow-up to my post yesterday about packing for international flights, I came across a good post on
T-Mobile global roaming tips over at MobileWhack. The short summary is that you should contact T-Mobile customer service *before* you leave the country to active global roaming, and know how to put your phone in Manual Network selection mode. For Series 60 phones, the setting is in “Tools > Settings > Network > Operator selection”. Keep in mind though, that global roaming rates can be amazingly expensive.

If you like to keep track of multiple time-zones while traveling, you might check out Handy Clock by epocware.

While on the subject of mobile’s, k5 has a new post about T-Mobile voice mail security (or the lack thereof) to remind us all that T-Mobile voicemail accounts can be compromised by spoofing caller-id if the account preferences aren’t changed to require a PIN code when checking voice-mail.

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